Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
Don't Asp Me!
Freud Was Right
The Clan of the Flapdragon
Scholarship, Mischief, and Sleaze
Hoodunit?
Cleopatra's Bilge
The Protean Obscenity and His Sister
Prufrockery
Weenie Roasts and Ecotage
Poontang Revisited
Presage in the Last Poems of Toulouse Mars
Martian Warps and Klingon Proverbs
What to Buy Your Wordmonger
Nosing an Obscure Trope
Schrapnel's List
Clothing the Gap
Romanticism Now and Then
Groupers and Swordfish
Among Cretins
"Ted Nugent Must Die!"
Monster Mash Revisited
Poem as Heimlich Maneuver
The Gig Is Up
The Hedges of Livingston County
Tom Ate/Slept Here
Save the Words: Schrapnel's List 2
Manifest Greenery
Forrest Jones and the Great Sasquatch Coverup
Extra! Extra!
Wisdom and Cynicism
Index