title page
text at top: Five Rooms

middle: China Marks

below: 2020

pp 1-2
text on left: Company for Dinner

text on right, center top: Hi, Kids!

center below: Your mother’s here for dinner? / Why didn’t you tell me?

top left: You would have worried all day. / She’s my mother. / Let me do the heavy lifting.

pp 3-4
text on left: A Poet and His Muse

text on right, middle top: You’re my muse. / You can’t leave me!

mid-right: Wanna bet?

pp 5-6
text on left: Call the Humane Society!

text on right, top right: When your leg heals / you can go home to the forest.

center left: But you broke my leg in a fit of rage / when I asked to go home!

pp 7-8
text on left: The Inventor and His Dog

text on right, top down: This is the final version / Of what? / Of what’s going to make him rich and famous.

pp 9-10
text on left: Someone Fishing Inside

text on right, below: I fish for compliments, mostly, / but I also catch a lot of hell.

text above: Still, he persists.