Lover Man

«My mind was filled with that Great song ‘Lover Man’ as Billie Holliday signs it; I had my own concert in the bushes. ‘Someday we’ll meet, and you’ll dry all my tears, and whisper sweet, little things in my ear, hugging and a-kissing, oh what we’ve been missing, Lover Man, oh where can you be… ‘ It’s not the words so much a as the great harmonic tune and the way Billie sings it, like a woman stroking her man’s hair in soft lamplight.»

On the road, Jack Kerouac