Hospitals didn't want a union, so I ended up a house guest to a couple different police departments over there in Illinois. I taught as a sub teacher all over the city, and they would call me cause I'd go anywhere, teach in any school. I taught steady for a year over at Peabody grade school, by the projects. I worked on the river, I liked that job. Tugboat deckhand, it was a great job.
Carnivals are a scuffling business.
I picked up 'carny' language from them. It's a variation on pig Latin. I tried for awhile there. Maybe I was lucky, I don't know. I had moved down into the city.