Isn’t the Light OK?

Carla and I are lean­ing against a rock on Church Street in Burling­ton, VT, enjoy­ing the unsea­son­ably warm Novem­ber day. The scene sur­round­ing us is a per­fect cross sec­tion of hip­pie and hip­ster, col­lege kids and dropouts. Peo­ple rush in and out of cafes, book­stores and the occa­sional chain retail monstrosity.

We’re eat­ing warm, fresh ket­tle corn that we just bought from a street ven­dor. A busker is play­ing vaguely famil­iar cov­ers nearby, then starts strum­ming a B flat to E flat chord pro­gres­sion that reminds me of a Big Star song. He vamps on the chords for a minute or so, until he starts to sing:

“Won’t you let me walk you home from school?”

We stay for the whole song, after which I drop a few dol­lar bills in his case.

“That was for play­ing ‘Thir­teen,’” I tell him.

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