title: A Full Cup of Joe: Sayings, Sights, Sounds, and Snippets of My Life (So Far)
author: Joe G. Dillard
description: Joe G. Dillard, formerly of Blue Mound, Missouri, now lives in Columbia, Missouri with his wife (Betty), their three children and five grandchildren (who are all above average). Joe worked 33 years for the Missouri Department of Conservation after
zlib_text: Joe Pitt 3 - Half the Blood of Brooklyn
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  > Joe Pitt 3 - Half the Blood of Brooklyn
  
  > Joe Pitt 3 - Half the Blood of Brooklyn
  
  > To Mr. Stoker and Mr. Chandler.With my greatest thanks.And apologies for the
  > liberties taken.
  
  > I DON'T LIKE HIM.
  
  > I don't like the way he smells. I don't like the way he looks. I don't like
  > his shoes. If I stuck a blade in him and drank the blood that shot out of
  > the open wound, I wouldn't like the way he tastes.
  
  > But Terry told me to be cool.
  
  > So I don't kill the guy.
  
  > \--You can't get somethin' for nothin', is all I'm sayin'.
  
  > Terry nods, waves some of the thick cigar smoke away from his face.
  
  > \--No doubt, no doubt.
  
  > The guy I don't like blows another cloud off his stogie.
  
  > \--If I bring the Docks into your thing, I got to know what's in it for my
  > members. Not like I'm here for my own self. I'm an elected representative,
  > it's the members decide these things, and they decide nothin' they don't
  > know what they got comin