Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Foreword ix
4. Acknowledgments xi
5. Forecasts 1
6. He Said These Things, Not Even I Could Forgive Him 2
7. Of Arc 3
8. Anniversary 4
9. Department Store Fictions 5
10. Tomorrow’s Living Room 6
11. One Art 7
12. Two Parts Water 8
13. The Ever Inconstancy 9
14. Two, Couchbound 10
15. After Archilochos 11
16. Change 12
17. Missing IOU 13
18. Curse 14
19. Japanese Watermelon 15
20. Administration 16
21. Three Days In and Already It’s Come to This 17
22. Fasted and Loosed 18
23. Triolet 19
24. Anniversary 20
25. Capitalism as Comeuppance 21
26. Ask Anyone, They’ll Tell You 22
27. Regret 23
28. Praise 24
29. There but for the Grace 25
30. There’s an Old Man 26
31. Not a Demon 27
32. And Quartered 28
33. Anniversary 29
34. The Thirty-Six Dramatic Situations: 10 30
35. The Thirty-Six Dramatic Situations: 11 31
36. The Thirty-Six Dramatic Situations: 31 32
37. The Thirty-Six Dramatic Situations: 1–36 33
38. On the Take 34
39. Anniversary 35
40. One on the Heels of the Other 36
41. Things That Still Scare Me 37
42. He Dreams of the Diner of The Damned 38
43. Apology 39
44. Twenty Questions, the Advanced Edition 40
45. Self-Portrait 41
46. Anniversary 42
47. Sonnet 43
48. What We Said Then, That Wasn’t Nice 44
49. Anniversary 45
50. Why Poetry? Because 46
51. Dear Morbid in Malaysia 47
52. Three Curses 48
53. Anniversary 49
54. Last Bit 50
55. Nightmare 51
56. The Story You’re Telling 52
57. We’re a Rerun 53
58. I Thought That 54
59. Faith 55
60. Anniversary 56
61. Ghazal 57
62. Having At It 58
63. Perfect Forecasting, Found on eBay 59
64. Finnish Rabbit 60
65. Anniversary 61
66. Disappearing Act 62
67. About the Author 63
68. The May Swenson Award 64