Chris O'Carroll for years has been making me laugh until the tears run. This funny, serious, smart, and wonderfully naughty book could have been written by an unabashed and totally truthful thirteen-year-old, but with the brilliance and audacity of a mature, informed author fascinated with language, the truth, and humanity. Every one of its seven surprising sections of fresh and varied work, rich in puns and daring imagery, contains priceless poems in different forms that will serve you as self-defense in today's political and social atmosphere of hypocrisy, greed, and power in self-serving hands. It will keep you sane and laughing through what's left of a bad time, and may remind you of aspects of the world, its people, and our lives still worthy of preserving. Rhina Espaillat, author The Field