The agonies of love are well illustrated in poems like "I Think I'm Gonna Puke," "Small Screen Cuckold" and "Midlife Crisis." In the title poem, breaking hearts and breaking wind merge together in a perfect lyrical marriage, taking the 14-line, 10-syllable sonnet to a place it's never been before! The miserable, awful, life-draining job is well illustrated in "Five Figure Wage Slave," "The Ass in Associate," and "Clockwatch Blues."
The tone and mood of the humor runs from the bizarre to the sarcastic, and much of the material is kooky, somewhat shocking and definitely in-your-face, often full of subtle and not all that subtle social commentary. In addition to the poetry, there's a sequence of "Sympathy Cards We'd Really Like to Send." They're hilarious and horrifying because they are so true.
Over the top illustration accompany many of the poems, and if the text doesn't make you howl, the drawing will--the guy still eating after making himself sick, the frustrated, venting woman cleaning up the kitchen, the office worker, right off the Caribbean Cruise, maintaining her tan at her desk, the faces of Swedish Rock Phenomenon ABBA ensconced on the currency we all love so much.
