THE MUSEYou owe me. Pay up. According to my accounts, you have...
CASUAL FRIENDSend lies to the people listed below....
THE AWARDS COMMITTEEThis is to notify you that--but what's the use?...
THE WISEThe world could fall to pieces with no notice....
UNCLE ALA chicken is a touchy creature....
THE OTHERSHere where we live the lines are down and the surprises build into snowbanks...
DANNYDusty Clinton Township kids making paper roosters and snowball...
SAMUEL RENSBERGER I am your grandfather's grandfather and through my wakeless sleep I dream...
OLD NEIGHBOREast across low muddy fields and behind the screening trees you can see...
THE WORM COUNCILWe call your attention to worms. Though sweeping ice age disaster...
THE HERONI flew in down by the round deep pond behind your house...
WITNESSI saw the largest moon ever rise huge bright yellow, sailing where it cared to...
PLOT
The sad story
of how we got here
blent and complex as soup
Man O Day
the old guy says
pointing his finger at doom
We turn to face him
at the end of part one
Mockingbird enters
by voice only
we think we hear words
but they are not repeated
(suspect mockingbirds
of symbolism)
Everything hinges
on the third-from-last chapter
and what we do to ourselves then
to move toward
the little dot
we can only imagine