About this book

I originally published this book in Palo Alto on 10 September 1985. I had read the poems in this collection with Bill Vartnaw in the Russian River Monday Night Poetry and Prose Reading Series at the Burbank Activities Center in Sebastopol, California, on 5 August 1985.

The illustrations, including the front and back covers, are reproductions that I made using MacPaint of pieces of paper with printed messages that I had collected, now separated from the products that they were made for.

You may email tom/AT/sharpgiving/DOT/-c-o-m-/ to share comments on this work.

—Tom Sharp, Seattle

Links and shortcuts

In any page, you can click on or touch links to jump around in this book.

• Each entry in the contents links to the poem.
• The title for a poem links back to the contents, highlighting the entry for the poem.
• Words in the headers and footers link to the index, the contents, a listing of books by the author, to this page, and to the previous and next poems in the book.

You may find the following keyboard equivalents to be convenient. Here I use the symbol ⌥ for the option key on Mac/OS or the alt key on Windows, ⇧ for the shift key, and ⏎ for the return (enter) key. Arrow keys are ◄ (left), ► (right), ▲ (up), and ▼ (down).

Keyboard shortcuts for navigating this book

Context	Keys	Jump to / Behavior
index	⌥ ◄	Books by Tom Sharp
	⌥ ▲	About Tom Sharp
	⌥ ►	about this book (this page)
	⌥ ▼	contents
	⇧ ⌥ ▼	contents
contents	⇧ ⌥ ▲	index
	⇧ ⌥ ►	about this book (this page)
	⌥ ▼	select the next item in the contents
	⌥ ▲	select the previous item in the contents
	⌥ ►	open the selected page
	⌥ ⏎	open the selected page
poem	⇧ ⌥ ▲	contents
	⌥ ◄	contents
	⌥ ▲	select the previous poem, or, from the top poem, open the previous page
	⌥ ▼	select the next poem, or, from the bottom poem, open the next page
back cover	⇧ ⌥ ▲	cover
	⌥ ◄	contents
	⌥ ▲	open the previous page
	⇧ ⌥ ◄	Books by Tom Sharp
	⇧ ⌥ ◄	About Tom Sharp