Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references (page 159) and index.

Sweepings -- Titters & tatters -- Odds & ends -- Willy-nilly -- Residue.

Little red purse, London -- Two -- Trash talk -- Sorrow of the paper mill -- world of the future, we thirsted -- Don't mess with Texas (highway sign) -- Random trash thoughts -- Look at me, look at me -- End of August -- Leavings -- Hill Country -- Trash is a ticket to nowhere -- Georgia O'Keefe on location -- Find your path -- Pine cones -- Snow covers all the trash -- Trash talk 929 -- Who do you think you are? -- Separated -- Trash talk 212 -- Found -- Anger -- Little boy and green trash truck-- Tinfoil merges with street -- Dear August A. Busch -- At the bus stop -- Maui -- Red ribbon on the walk -- Failure -- Tiny bites life -- College town -- Read all about it! -- Owner of 136 snakes surrenders them, Texas -- Folded cardboard in the street -- Stumble leaf -- Welcome to Hong Kong -- Three wet report cards on Camden Street -- McD/on/ald's -- Guadalupe Street trash -- Current events -- The president we did not vote for -- Looking at any map -- Crushed cup -- Not a bagel, but... -- Barbara -- Mysteries of humankind -- We make our own trash -- Famous people -- Trash talk 326 -- They are thinking about giving tickets -- Tony's trash -- Ilse's trash -- Junk mail -- Prince Charles please -- Trash talk 1 -- Things I found today -- Attention -- Strange things keep happening: Houston -- New Year -- Bits -- Taxpayer money -- Trash talk 7,299 -- Trash talk 1,021 -- Three blank index cards -- What makes people the way they are? -- You are here -- Happy day -- Back streets of Ledbury, Herefordshire, England -- Why are we so messy? -- Trash talk 948 -- Movies -- Vero Beach revival -- No see that -- Trash mottoes -- Trash walk 1331 -- Stephen Foster -- Central school -- Nothing -- Connor James, age 3 -- Not my problem -- The potato -- Penny -- Lately the moon.

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