My Stolen Maverick, 1975

Someone stole my car in Canarsie. In it I'd left a library book, John Updike's Couples. Weeks later, the police found my car in Brownsville. Couples was gone, but on the back seat was another library book, Adelle Davis's Let's Eat Right to Keep Fit.

The thief had paid my overdue fine.

I paid his.