on it was painted a replica of the concert tickets, and the names Sal and Laura and Remi and Vicki,
the girl, together with a series of sad jokes and some of his favorite sayings such as .You can’t teach
the old maestro a new tune..
So Dean couldn’t ride uptown with us and the only thing I could do was sit in the back of the
Cadillac and wave at him. The bookie at the wheel also wanted nothing to do with Dean. Dean,
ragged in a moth-eaten overcoat he brought specially for the freezing temperatures of the East,
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walked off alone, and the last I saw of him he rounded the corner of Seventh Avenue, eyes on the
street ahead, and bent to it again. Poor little Laura, my baby, to whom I’d told everything about
Dean, began almost to cry.
.Oh, we shouldn’t let him go like this. What’ll we do?. Old Dean’s gone, I thought, and out loud
I said, .He’ll be all right.. And off we went to the sad and disinclined concert for which I had no
stomach whatever and all the time I was thinking of Dean and how he got back on the train and rode
over three thousand miles over that awful land and never knew why he had come anyway, except to
see me.
So in America when the sun goes down and I sit on the old broken-down river pier watching the
long, long skies over New Jersey and sense all that raw land that rolls in one unbelievable huge bulge
over to the West Coast, and all that road going, all the people dreaming in the immensity of it, and in
Iowa I know by now the children must be crying in the land where they let the children cry, and
tonight the stars’ll be out, and don’t you know that God is Pooh Bear? the evening star must be
drooping and shedding her sparkler dims on the prairie, which is just before the coming of complete
night that blesses the earth, darkens all rivers, cups the peaks and folds the final shore in, and
nobody, nobody knows what’s going to happen to anybody besides the forlorn rags of growing old,
I think of Dean Moriarty, I even think of Old Dean Moriarty the father we never found, I think of
Dean Moriarty.
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