To prove his point: with a quick slice, the officer cut [an Arab's] stomach in two, and rolled-up flags, flyers, candy, and phone tokens came spilling out of it. ??do not touch the candy,' the officer warned them. ??it is poisoned.' In passages like these, Keret's work evinces a mordant sensibility shared by writers such as Terry Southern, Robert Coover, and Brad Millhauser.