The Late Ambassadorial Light 3
Horse Bleeding to Death at Full Gallop 6
Debate Regarding the Permissibility of Eating Mermaids 7
Ten Years Hard Labor on a Guano Island 10
Family Photo Around Xmas Tree 11
Three Vials of Maggots 14
Can Tie Shoes But Won't 17
The American Fancy Rat and Mouse Association 18
To Help the Monkey Cross the River 19
Thus, He Spoke His Quietus 22
Guide for the Perpetually Perplexed 27
The Year the Locust Hath Eaten 29
Burned Forests and Horses' Bones 30
Letter to Walt Whitman from a Soldier He Nursed in Armory Square Hospital, Washington, D.C., 1866 32
To Plow and Plant the Seashore 37
National Impalement Statistics 40
174517: Primo Levi, an Elegy 42
With Maeterlinck's Great Book 44
The Chief Attendant of the Napkin 46
The Mountains in the River on the Way to the Sea 48
Reject What Confuses You 49
Flies So Thick above the Corpses in the Rubble, the Soldiers Must Use Flamethrowers to Pass Through 50
I Will Please, Said the Placebo 53
Hospitality and Revenge 54
Can't Sleep the Clowns Will Eat Me 59
