Also published: New York : Back Bay Books, 2005. 257 p

Us and them -- Let it snow -- Ship shape -- Full house -- Consider the stars -- Monie changes everything -- Change in me -- Hejira -- Slumus lordicus -- Girl next door -- Blood work -- End of the affair -- Repeat after me (Live) -- Six to eight black men (Live) -- Rooster at the hitchin' post -- Possession -- Put a lid on it -- Can of worms -- Chicken in the henhouse -- Who's the chef? -- Baby Einstein -- Nuit of the living dead