Northern California Funeral Robert Balmano [Total Pages: 5] Balmanno Page 1 Failed Catholic, failed agnostic, failed Zen      Buddhist But a first-rate bullshitter No bread, lived like a monk Cremation Coffee Can Cheap No Frills Short and sweet Speak barely a peep, Then drop my ground-down bones at the point Where the Big Sur river meets the Pacific Ocean I just don't want to be there when it happens,     okay? Robert Balmanno's debut novel, September Snow (the first volume of a projected tetralogy), will be published by Regent Press as "A Caveat Lector Book" in spring 2006.