Gordon Lightfoot: Just Like a Paperback Novel
Nicholas Jennings, Zoomer, March 2020
I'M DRIVING NORTH up Toronto's Bayview Avenue on a winter's night in early January. I turn east on Post Road and into the Bridle Path neighbourhood, an ultra-posh enclave known as "Millionaire's Row". I slow down opposite rapper Drake's monster palace, complete with indoor basketball court, and turn toward the stately home that belongs to Gordon Lightfoot.
Total word count of piece: 3218