The Moments
By Jack Joseph Smith
And in the beginning when I turned nineteen
there happened in my life Fay Parker out of
Pittsburgh with her spirit of iron in her
will as a dancer, two hour a night sleeper,
traveling children's theatre playwright and
director, and with her lovely poet daughter
Molly, while with them Tom Mc Kenna the great
singer, and handsome star of the coal miner's
towns who told me now that I was with them
and off the streets I would never in goodness
of feeling depart from the theatre, and he
was absolutely right...