Tales from Outer Suburbia

"Tales From Outer Suburbia" is a collection of illustrated stories about, among other things, a water buffalo who hangs out in a vacant lot and gives directions to local kids; stick figures who get beaten up by neighborhood bullies; a giant du­gong that appears on someone's lawn; and the lonely fate of all the unread poetry that people write - it joins a vast "river of waste that flows out of suburbia." This last story, by the way, is presented as a flotilla of random scraps that "through a strange force of attraction" come together, the word "naturally" meeting the phrase "many poems are" and then "immediately destroyed."