July 13, 1976 (I was 31)
Incident on Howard Street
In Feldman’s Clothier where his mother had worked
a sales clerk asked me where I got my Dylan T-shirt
Certainly not in Hibbing I teased first
then smiled and told her Berkeley
She told me
she had been Bob’s next door neighbor
that she’d stored some of his stuff in her basement
I told her I grew up in Keewatin
My wife graduated in Hibbing and knew his brother David
She said she was Mrs. Schneider
and one of her daughters graduated the same year
Bob removed his stuff some time ago
She served him coffee in her kitchen
and he gave her a signed copy of the album
with Blowin’ In The Wind on it
Later she saw a letter he wrote to his mother
Don’t believe all you read about me
I still brush my teeth everyday
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