Contents

The Reluctant Opening—March 12, 2009

Back for More—March 13, 2009

How to Stand out Admidst a Confederacy of Dunces—March 28, 2009

Spatial Concerns—April 8, 2009

Rolling on Air—April 29, 2009

Back to Earth—May 4, 2009

Pressure Sore—May 10, 2009

Redfaced—May 20, 2009

Birthday Hats Look Like Dunce Hats—May 24, 2009

Memory Lane is Not Wheelchair Accessible—June 2, 2009

The Four Hoarsemen—June 6, 2009

Rainy Day—June 8, 2009

Small Worlds Can Shrink Even Further—June 12, 2009

Rolling With the Devil—June 15, 2009

Token Entry—July 29, 2009

This is No Country for Young Men—July 2, 2009

Death Gains Dominion—July 5, 2009

A Valediction: Briefly Allowing Mourning—July 6, 2009

Funeral Procession—July 12, 2009

The Circles of Hell Are Wheels—July 16, 2009

Life Goes Grimly On—August 3, 2009

My Heart Leaps up When I Behold the New Resident—August 10, 2009

Token Report—August 12, 2009

Her Crutches Her Silver Bangles—August 15, 2009

Esmeralda, the Elusive Beast of Loch Armstrong—August 22, 2009

Without Contraries, There Is No Progression—August 24, 2009

Attack of the Giant Mantis—September 4, 2009

Elegy to Intellectual Beauty—September 14, 2009

You Can’t Fast-Forward Stop-motion—September 22, 2009

Pupils Are Not Necessarily Synonymous with Vision—September 27, 2009

Keynote Speaker, Keystone Teacher—October 7, 2009

This Wheelchair Bower Her Prison—October 12, 2009

L’enfer, C’est Les Autres—October 13, 2009

Expulsion from Paradise—October 14, 2009

Truth Is Ugliness, Ugliness Truth—October 19, 2009

We Can Find No Scar but Internal Difference, Where the Meanings Are—October 24, 2009

Tossing Away an Albatross Is More Difficult than You Think—October 28, 2009

Ninety-five Domestic Theses—November 3, 2009

Decisions and Revisions Which a Minute Will Reverse—November 5, 2009

Et Tu, Brutus?—November 7, 2009

A Stuffed Man, Leaning Alone, Headpiece Filled with Paper—November 9, 2009

One-man Exodus—November 14, 2009

In Saskatoon Did Kubla Khan a Crappy Torture Home Decree—November 16, 2009

Pity Is an Abomination—November 21, 2009

Better to Serve in Heaven than Reign in Hell—November 24, 2009

How Frugal Is the Chariot that Bears the Human Soul—December 4, 2009

The Crippled Broadcasting Corporation—December 7, 2009

I Do Not Think the Mermaids Will Sing to Me—December 11, 2009

The Winter of My Discontent—December 17, 2009

Ghosts of Christmases Past—December 23, 2009

God Rest This Weary Gentleman, Whom Everything Dismays—December 25, 2009

Should Auld Acquaintance Be Forgot?—January 1, 2010

Molotov Cocktails Explode Hotter in the Brain—January 3, 2010

What Happens to a Dream Deferred—January 11, 2010

A Teacher’s Work Is Never Done—January 18, 2010

A Day without Learning Is Penance Enough—January 22, 2010

A Tale Told by a Doctor, Full of Sound and Fury—January 27, 2010

Death Saves a Man; the Idea of Death Destroys Him—February 1, 2010

All Noble Things Are Touched with Melancholy—February 4, 2010

Thou Shalt Have Cramps, Side-stitches that Shall Pen Thy Breath Up—February 8, 2010

Nothing Like the Sun—February 11, 2010

Bukowski Probably Liked Hospital Gowns—February 16, 2010

The Vitruvian Man Is the Spokes of a Giant Wheel—February 22, 2010

I Felt a New Orleans Funeral, in My Brain—February 24, 2010

Ding Dong, the Witch is Gone—February 25, 2010

Old No. 7 Brand—February 27, 2010

A New Ceremony—March 1, 2010

Much Madness Is Divinest Sense—March 13, 2010

A Big Sister Is the Appendix in the Broken Family’s Anatomy—March 15, 2010

Watering a Poison Tree—March 18, 2010

There’s a Certain Slant of Light That Oppresses—March 23, 2010

As Though of Hemlock I Had Drunk—April 6, 2010

Anger’s My Meat; I Sup Upon Myself and So Shall Fill with Feeding—April 9, 2010

The Still-Small Voice Pronounces Trippingly on the Tongue—April 12, 2010

A Jack in the Box Is a Crippled Son of a Bitch—April 16, 2010

The Straining Man Perched on a Circle Prepares to Abandon All Systems; the Straining Man Perched on Two Circles Proposes an Entirely New System—April 21, 2010

For Thine is the Kingdom, and the Power, and the Glory—April 22, 2010

Get Me a File, Young Pip—April 27, 2010

The Readiness Is All—May 1, 2010

Travel Narrows the Mind—May 4, 2010

If Only You Could Breathe What I Breathe—May 8, 2010

A Noiseless Impatient Mantis—May 13, 2010

The Peacock—May 16, 2010

Asshole Doctors—May 19, 2010

The Sound Must Seem an Echo to the Sense—June 20, 2010

Note to the Reader

Acknowledgements

About Adam Pottle