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This short lyric remembers Neal Cassady, the lived Beat figure behind Kerouac's fiction, through warmth, wind, women, and a slow departure.

The page compresses a historically mythologized personality back into atmosphere. The source title `Neil:Cassady` and spelling `meat Cassady` remain untouched, while wind, desire, and the slow leaving preserve the speaker's own memory rather than a corrected literary portrait.

A four-line lyric headed 'Neil:Cassady'. 'It was warm when I meat Cassady' fixes the meeting in body heat, then 'Beautiful women were the wind' makes Cassady inseparable from movement and desire. The closing 'So slow, so much like him / when we left' slows the line to an elegiac drift, the rhythm enacting the leave-taking. The source spelling 'meat Cassady' and the colon in the title are kept verbatim.