Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Autopsychographia 1
4. The Truth in Pudding 4
5. Poem Loading... 12
6. Talk to Me 13
7. From Stone 28
8. Sane as Tugged Vat, Your Love 29
9. Two Stones with One Bird 30
10. Sad Boy’s Sad Boy 31
11. Design 32
12. Blue Tile 33
13. The Honor of Virtue 34
14. Blown Wind 35
15. The Duck Hunters 36
16. Loneliness in Linden 37
17. Umbra 38
18. Dea%r Fr~ien%d, 39
19. Fold 40
20. Ku( na )hay 41
21. 5 for MP 43
22. Brush Up Your Chaucer 46
23. The Importance of Being Bob 49
24. Every True Religion Is Bound to Fail 51
25. The Twelve Tribes of Dr. Lacan 52
26. Do Not Desensitize 53
27. Sea Drift 54
28. On Election Day 55
29. Last Words 57
30. Pompeii 65
31. I will not write imitative poetry 66
32. All set 67
33. The Sixties, with Apologies 68
34. Prose 69
35. Not on My Watch 70
36. In Res Robin, Nibor Resalb Inscripsit Mentastrum ( XXC ) 71
37. Stupid Men, Smart Choices 72
38. Lenny Paschen Redux 73
39. Trouble near Me 74
40. Later 76
41. Irreconcilable Disrepair 77
42. sorrow where there is no pain 78
43. A Theory’s Evolution 79
44. Todtnauberg 80
45. How Empty Is My Bread Pudding 81
46. [ “There once was a Young Woman of Whitechapel” ] 92
47. Transegmental Drift 93
48. Incantation by Laughter 94
49. Great Moments in Taches Blanches 95
50. You Say Insipid, I Say Inscripsit 99
51. [ “To empty earth falling unwilled” ] 100
52. A Long Time ’til Yesterday 101
53. Joint Dark Energy Mission 102
54. To a Begging Redhead 105
55. The Moment Is You 108
56. This Poem Is in Finnish 110
57. Breathtails 111
58. The Jew 120
59. Manifest Aversions, Conceptual Conundrums, & Implausibly Deniable Links 123
60. And Aenigma Was His Name, O! 127
61. Armed Stasis 128
62. Unready, Unwilling, Unable 129
63. Recipe for Disaster 134
64. After Leminski 135
65. Catullus 85 136
66. Psychology of Composition ( VII ) 137
67. Venereal Muse 138
68. Poems for Rehab 139
69. Won’t You Give Up This Poem to Someone Who Needs It? 140
70. The Most Frequent Words in Girly Man 141
71. Death on a Pale Horse 153
72. Up High Down Low Too Slow ( 2 ) 154
73. Charon’s Boat 155
74. If You Say Something, See Something 156
75. [ “Tomorrow, dawn . . .” ] 157
76. Today Is the Last Day of Your Life ’til Now 158
77. Time Served 159
78. Synchronicity All Over Again 160
79. Le pont Mirabeau 161
80. Morality 162
81. The Introvert 165
82. Strike! 166
83. Sapphics 171
84. Recalculating 172
85. Misfortune 180
86. Be Drunken 181
87. Long Before the Rain, I Wept 182
88. Chimera 183
89. Before You Go 184
90. Notes & Acknowledgments 187