Based on a quick scan of "Don't Let Them Strap You To The Apparatus" and "The Perfect Hands of Max Beckmann", I suspect our Mr. Hoffenburg is a very sick puppy himself...
I'm getting a very ugly picture of this corner of Vermont...
I did read some of the poetry and I totally concur, his mind is a 'bit' warped. Personally I prefer the neighboring 'live free or die' state of New Hampshire over the wacko leftist socialist mentality of Vermont.