Bear Songs
"Lacking bear pepper-spray, I walked home across the garden last night singing very loud bear songs, which went something along the lines of, "Lalala, I am singing very loudly to alert the bear to my presence, Lalala because most of the websites I've found talk about making noise and giving bears lots of time to get away, Lalala also I do not want to startle a bear at all because according to everything I've read on the subject bears do not like being startled." You don't have to worry about rhymes with bears. They don't mind about rhymes. Or tunes. Or scansion. Frankly, hypothetical bears are a very easy sort of audience."
(I am proud to say that I have sometimes been known to sing bear songs when hiking. Gaiman's words send a wave of nostalgia over me. I should hike more. And sing more.)
[And, on another note, mockups for the next Neil Gaiman collection of short stories, entitled "Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders." Fragile Things is due out in Autumn, and I plan to own it within a couple of days of its release.]
