If Instead of Apes We Had Come from Grapes, We Wouldn't Just Yet Be Wine

Light Verse For A Heavy Universe
With an outrageous sense of absurdity--and a bite to match his bark--Alan Van Dine rekindles the long-neglected powers of light verse to reveal the humor in everything from science and history to the sacred cows of everyday life.
Includes Van Dine’s series: "Rhymes and Ditties For Middle Size Cities"
The author introduces this chapter telling us "Facetious verse about a city has got to be nasty or it just doesn’t work, which is why Chambers of Commerce employ so few poets." Memorialized and pilloried are:
- Pittsburgh (his home town), - Muncie, - Decatur, - Buffalo, - Fort Wayne, ...and more.