Around the poolroom I defended the guys I felt were my real brothers, the colored musicians who made music that sent me, not a lot of beat-up old hamfats who sang and played a commercial excuse for the real thing.

the globe of the eye; the globe of a lamp

The Avs will win a cup before Detoilet does again. Our rebuilding has started, yours is being patchworked with denial.

… we would pour water from the tank over ourselves with a calabash and finish by splashing on the Agua Florida from Lanman & Kemps […]