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...talk, and I don't feel like talking In My mind. I've planned this bus ride to be six hours of suspended animation. I will roll in a dark bus along a section of Interstate that starts in Chicago a place I hardly know and ends in Ann Arbor a place I've never been Outside the window there's only flatness more space between gas stops and shopping centers than I'm used to the Midwest is foreign to me It may be that the older I get the more attached I become to the Fast where...
...Chicago Greyhound station, who looks my age and wears waffle stompers and a moustache, is sitting at the empty end of a table, and I sit down with him. Before I've finished my soup I find out we're both getting off the bus in Ann Arbor, where I'm visiting for a day and he's doing a psychiatry clerkship at the Michigan Medical School. He is very friendly, and very unassuming. He asks where I go to school and if I have a place to stay, which I don't and he offers...
...some more, but that was all I had. "I've seen rednecks brown-bagging in the back seat before, but never any dope on a bus. I wonder: did Mrs. Ellis Smell it. Does she even know what it smells like? "For a while in Ann Arbor the penalty for dope was a $5 fine. People smoke it in public, in the movies all the time...
...ARBOR, Paul lives on Fourth Street, near the center of town, a quiet block with old trees, square two-story small houses, and big yards. The street corner has one of those green signs on a post with white reflecting lettering, the exact kind of sign they have in my home town and in almost every town I've seen in the last few years. Above the part that says Fourth Street, someone has made another sign, with reflecting letters from the hardware store, that says Positively...
...album pouring out of two huge speakers I've living room is well furnished, in fact the whole house is very comfortable, and brightly lit. A photograph of the New Riders of the Purple Sage sits on a fancy easel to one side, and there are poster for Ann Arbor rock concerts on the walls. I think: It's strange to relax in a strange home with strangers. Paul graciously keeps handing me a full balloon when mine's empty and refills the old one at the tank. If I were really taking it easy with friend I'd play...