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...
URIA BYLER'S ELEGY FOR PALMER LEHMAN
Palmer Lehman has been gone for quite a few years.
Worked till his 70th birthday,
big husky man, never shirked
from any job, but the company's policy
forbade anyone working after being 70.
Working as a security guard
at a factory in Middlefield
his heart started to fail,
and one cold winter day
he walked out to get his mail.
About ten feet from the house
he fell over dead from a heart attack.
His retarded daughter in the house
assumed her father
spent the night with friends.
Next day the bread man found him
partly snowed under
his mail still clutched in his hand.
--from The Budget