Singer Book

Preface to the 25th Anniversary Edition
1. For Most Who Live, Hell Is Never Knowing Who They Are
2. It Is Strange How Oftentimes the Air Speaks
3. Two Artists Met One Time Within a Little Wood
4. I Knew a Blind Man Whom a Surgeon Helped to See
5. Hate Sometimes Stands Quite Close to Love
6. If She Has Loved Him, a Man Will Carry Anything for His Mother—a Waterpot or a World
7. Before the Song
8. It Is Always Much More Difficult to Sing When the Audience Has Turned Its Back
9. A Healthy Child Is Somehow Very Much Like God; a Hurting Child, His Son
10. The Word Crying Does Not Appear in the Lexicon of Heaven
11. Oftentimes Love Is So Poorly Packaged . . .
12. In Hell There Is No Music
13. No Person Ever Is So Helpless As the Man in Whom Joy and Misery Sleep Comfortably Together
14. To God Obscenity Is Not Uncovered Flesh; It Is Exposed Intention
15. Humanity Is Fickle
16. God Is an Old, Old Habit
17. A Finale Is Not Always the Best Song But It Is Always the Last
18. Vengeance/Mercy
19. Institutions Have a Poor Safety Record
20. A Child Who Cries at the Coffin of His Father . . .
21. Decision Is the Key to Desiny
22. When God Loses His Beloved . . .
23. What Would You Like to Be When You Grow Up, Little Girl?
24. Every Constellation Is But a Gathering of Distant Suns