For Carol H. Collins

sister writer

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Thanks to Michael Tratner for believing in this work.

Thanks to Diane Greco for making it happen.

Thanks to my family for all the usual, which is not so usual.

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Excerpts from The Butcher Boy, © Copyright 1992 by Patrick McCabe, used by permission of Fromm International Publishing Company.

“Pig Newtons” from Bob Gorman's Page O'Spam, © Copyright 1999 by Bob Gorman, used by permission of the author.

Lyrics from “Victim of Society,” © Copyright 1976 by Randy California, used by permission of Bernice Pearl and the Randy C. Wolfe Estate.

Excerpt from The Kung Fu Book of Wisdom: Sage Advice from the Original TV Series (Charles E. Tuttle Co., 1995). © Copyright 1995 by Herbie J. Pilato. Used by permission of the author.

Excerpts from Amok Fourth Dispatch: Sourcebook of the Extremes of Information in Print (Amok, 1990) used by permission of Amok Books.

Excerpt from Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary, 25th Edition, © Copyright 1974 W. B. Saunders Company, used by permission of the publisher.

Photograph of Ralph the Swimming Pig, © Copyright 1993 by Mike Roberts, used by permission of Southwest Texas State University. Thanks to Mario Pellegrini/Vita Productions, Inc., for kind permission to photograph their “Tin Man” sculpture and incorporate the image into this work.

SPAM is a registered trademark for luncheon meat owned by Hormel Foods, LLC. The author has no legal, commercial, or financial involvement with Hormel Foods, LLC. Neither the information related to SPAM presented herein, nor the manner in which it is presented, has been approved by Hormel Foods, LLC.