Marco, Every other day I walk to the Phoenicia Market to see the headlines. An 18-year-old guy I know usually works in the evenings. He has curly hair, and sometimes wears the t-shirt DYSLEXICS OF THE WORLD UNTIE. He always plays Heavy Metal music on the CD player, and tonight, as I looked at stories about the beheading of an American hostage, WASP (or are they spelled "W.A.S.P."?) were singing

The torture
never STOPS!

Heavy Metal has somehow become real.
Worrying,
Sparrow

Never Sad
"I am never
sad," Isaac
Asimov said.

"When I begin
to feel unhappy,
I write a book."

Bumper Sticker
Seen in Rosendale: STUPIDITY + RAGE = WAR

Jasmine,
Cat urine glows under a black light, I just discovered.

(I am substitute teaching today.
A kid in an Ozzy Osbourne shirt told me this.)
Symbolically,
Sparrow

P.S. I just learned a cockroach can
live up to 10 days without its head.

Definition
Zitgeist-the number of pimples
in a nation, at one moment

Papal Aspirin
Papal Aspirin was marketed briefly in the 1920s. The pills came with an endorsement by Pope Pius XI.

Nest
A nest
is financial.