CONTENTS

There are Pictures of Dennis Weaver at my Favorite Ice Cream Shop

I am Easily Rattled

Everything is a Rerun. or a Variety

I Cut My Knee on a Mousetrap

We all go to Branson

I Learn my Rhetoric From Hee Haw, Despite Myself

Hoyt Axton is From Oklahoma, and so is Roger Miller

Pearl Pearl Pearl, Don’t give your Love to Earl

Chester Treats his Thick Blood with Sarsaparilla Tea

I am Born

Sometimes we Take Walks

Lad, a Dog

Sometimes I Dangle by my Arm

The Problem with the Look Up

Every Town has its Ups and Downs, Sometimes Ups Outnumber the Downs. (but not in Nottingham.)

I Enjoy a Dislocation

I Pretend to Sleep on a Mat

I Will not Eat a Squirrel

Folks Tend to Kill Themselves

I Dream of Jerry Reed

Dislocation/Relocation

The World of the Lake

The Story of the Stroke

The Topography of a Tree

A Grotesque but Sentient Creature

Onward, to Trembling Mountain

I Sit Alone by the Poolside

The Rooster Strolleth

Why am I Being so Dramatic?

Things Change a Lot

What Else Changes

As I Lay Catatonic

The Rooster’s Lament

Acknowledgements

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