| Title | Excerpt |
| Spectacle Pond | "Staying at Jack's cabin on Spectacle pond near Aurora, Maine... |
| Fragment #6 | "During supper, Elijah laughs about farting... |
| Fragment #20 | "Making his guitar wail, Slick soothes himself... |
| Fragment #160(adult language) | "A day spent in solitude... Reading and painting, listening to Jazz... |
| Fragment #123 | "Sunday mornings. As partisans... |
| Fragment #25 | "While I'm sitting on the couch smoking a cigar, Having read eight pages of a biography on Lorca... |
| Fragment #80 | "He said, 'The most important social ill today is apathy... |
| Crafting | "Dam it, I finally understood Mozart when I heard Duke Ellington on Jonathan's show! Mozart like Ellington was the peer of Deities, spirits, and gifted souls... |
| In heaven, I dig Afro Blue | "On the way to work I listen to the radio. Searching for something good... |
| NOTES TO MY LEFT TOENAIL(adult language) | "The man is white. The man is black... |
| Heavenly Moment | "what did Miles Play for Bird... |
| On leaving Boston | "We routinely part the ether with fossil driven machines and create an oxymoron... |
| Music Lives (Jazz in him) | "Brian /
strung up like a fine tuned string... |
| Poem fo' Michael(adult language) | "Why did so many heroin addicts die to give us great Jazz?", asked Michael on his radio show... |
| He Might Not Feel | "So he might not feel like talking this morning. He snores with a copy of Isaac Bashevis Singer's... |
| An ode to those who question | "The sky is clear and the moon is crescent. A hot summer wind blows... |
