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Fats Waller

Ain’t Misbehavin’

Lena Horne

clay grates red with heat

“He’d come to sweep the church and check the space heaters and radiators because the cold was on. . . . The heaters were old donated units, probably illegal. The clay grates red with heat. They ran off a propane tank behind the little church. He liked them because you saw immediate hell in them. Hell was loose in the world and it had its colors.”

—Barry Hannah, Yonder Stands Your Orphan, 2001.

permanently pale

“He had heard a story of a man, Roy Orbison, who sang so beautifully that he turned permanently pale. He wore nothing but black and dark sunglasses to memorialize his grief over his wife and children dying in a fire. That was a wonderful fate, thought Ulrich.”

—Barry Hannah, Yonder Stands Your Orphan, 2001.

Baby Please Don’t Go

your rose pink Cadillac

“Well when you’re sitting back
In your rose pink Cadillac

Making bets on Kentucky Derby Day

I’ll be in my basement room

With a needle and a spoon

And another girl to take my pain away”

—Mick Jagger & Keith Richards, “Dead Flowers”, 1971.

Please Do Not Die In The Machines As It Colors Your Next Man’s Wash

“His name was Swell Melton; he regularly was manager of the Self*Wash Laundromat in Dream of Pines, but that didn’t take all his time. All he did, as a matter of fact, was keep replacing the adhesive tape on the sign over the washers saying ‘Please Do Not Die In The Machines As It Colors Your Next Man’s Wash.’ ”

—Barry Hannah, Geronimo Rex, 1972.