Winter 2005

WINTER 2005

Paul Pines THE TIN PALACE TROLL When TEX ALLEN leaned across Bradley’s bar to thank me for the years I let him practice in my basement I thought: What’s done is done. The world breeds new joints and savvy kids and mornings so long-of-tooth you wonder they were ever otherwise. “Listen,” he said. “You’re a poet and it musta been tuff running a club but if you never do anything else you’ve done enuf and if I didn’t tell you this I’d be worth less than a weed that owes something to the sod.” Paul Pines grew up in Brooklyn near Ebbets Field and passed the 60s on the Lower East Side of New York and as a Merchant Seaman. In 1970 he opened a jazz club called the Tin Palace in Manhattan that became a cultural watering hole for a decade and provided the setting for his first novel. He now lives in Glens Falls, NY and coordinates the Lake George Jazz Weeekend. His book of poetry Adrift on Blinding Light was published by IKON in 2003.

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