by Tomorrow's Man
August 17, 2003
Road Notes: I-90 Illinois
Illinois, the land of Billie Holiday in the middle of nowhere serving ten-dollar tuna melts, the road to traffic and East Coast attitude, the place where 40 cents hangs like a winking joke to every driver, the road that laughs like New Jersey, the land of red hots in the form of overheating cars, Illinois, the place where the dry grass sighs across the lake and rivers walk haphazardly and green-brown like pinstripes on the suit of New York's runt brother, Chicago, Illinois, where empty stars can be found in shoe heels and an empty head can make the same mistakes despite its haircut; Chicago, Illinois; just like everywhere.