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  1. When I was a child, the garbage man transfixed me. The truck pulls up, brakes squeal, two strapping young men hop from their monkey bars, fling the week’s refuse into the jaws of the waiting Kraken, the driver actuates the hydraulics, hydrogen sulfide and methane belch from the gaping maw, and then the rulers of rubbish grab hold again, hanging in space above the suburban pavement to repeat their Sisyphean task at the neighbor’s house ad infinitum. What adventure! 
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