What the Road Can Afford

What the Road Can Afford

Contents

Downtime For The Goldenboys
“Mother, Get My Ax!”
First Blues
Scapegoat
Kite
Thief
Osiris
Furloughed
What to Do With an Angel
Levity among the Loons
Featherhorse
Sitcom
The Progeny of Behaviorists
Nightlife
How to Taunt an Abyss
The Literary Life
Fantasia on a Train Station
Crucifixation

Faith Fictions
Creation Myth
Polka for the Recently Exhumed
Problems with Romance
Self-Portrait in Canine
A History of Bitings in the Domesticated Universe
For Every Action
Slaying Humbaba
Anima
Revolt among the Cabbage Heads
What Has Happened in Heaven? (Another American Messiah Tells His Tale)
Forty Days and Forty Nights
The Family Business
Dream of the Thousand Men
Rite of Passage
A Mounting Song

Exeunt
A Volunteer from the Audience

Notes

Acknowledgements

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