The Captains Thought

I was sitting at the Chili Parlor early in the summer and Tom Waits was sitting in the booth across from me having a 'Mad Dog' and a cigarette.

 He said looking at me with his crooked grin ,

"I’ve always been a word guy, I like weird words and I like American slang and all that and words that are no longer being used… I like to drag them out of the box and wave them around… this is an interesting one, it’s amazing how in addition to punctuation just a little pause in the wrong place can just completely transform the meaning of something."


— Tom Waits