Fried Page 2 claw that held me - it got so he could tell when the ship needed a fix. But we, poor       Persons from Porlock, were looking for a way out ... You left this "feather": I can't see a sign saying       Enterprise Auto Rental and not wince as your strutted wings batter sheetrock. No exit through       Opportunity's fabled window. To paraphrase what the blues man sings, we'll never get out of these words       alive. Philip Fried's third collection, Big Men Speaking to Little Men, will appear in the spring of 2006. He lives in New York.