Contents
Sidebend World
Part I
Animals in the News
Building a Turtle
Gratitude for Dark Energy
Dominion of Blue
Evolution of Love Poetry
Snapshots of Alpaca
Why I Won't Mind If My Fruit Trees Don't Produce This Year
High Winds, Becoming Gusty at Times
Box of Butterflies
World's Fattest Man Is Missing
Have I Got a Script For You
Nice People Aren't So Bad
When I Think of Happiness,
"Enthusiasm Should Be Tempered"
Subjective
Wave
Bait Ball
Part II
People Think I'm a Gourmet Chef
Getting to Know My Neurotransmitters
Laughing Song
Guys in Chairs
Making History
A Far Cry from Eli Whitney
Custer's Last Handstand
Be Careful
Poison Oak
Fear Factor
You Don't Want To Meet the Ai-Uru
Here Be Monsters
Propitiate
Parasites
Thirteenth Floor Elevators
Recommendations
We Rarely Mark When They've Occurred:
Part III
Swept Away
Husband
The Woman on the Cover of Glamour Magazine
Bouncing the Porpis
Snails
Stinging Tree
Emergency
Glass
A TV Writer's Best Friend
Rain Stick
See What You're Missing!
"Face-Eating Rottweiler, Free to Good Home"
Meanwhile, Back on Mt. Olympus . . .
Hero Food
Nice Hat
Ginsu
Turtle Hunt
And Yet,
Down the Bayou
Acknowledgments