Table of Contents
I
Whose Little Airplane Are You? 10
The Talking Tea-Kettle 11
The Injured Future 15
Orlando Is Us 16
Grim Sleeper 17
Neighborhood Watch 19
Waziristan 20
Baghdad Calls 22
Hope Wanted Alive 23
Orpheus 24
Setsuden 25
Second Thanksgiving 26
Washington: D for Dream, C for Cruel 27
Red Summer 1919 28
II
Noble Savage 32
Good Vibrations 35
Green Girls 37
Ez Passitis 39
Airport News 40
Odysseus's Mother-In-Law 46
Glass of Water Encounter 49
Mother Doesn't Bite 50
Thanatos Machine 51
Why Wax, Why Not Wane? 52
Death March 54
Caned 55
Boy on Crutches 56
Dark Daddy 57
Countess Lethargy 58
III
Professor Harriman's Steam Air-Ship 60
IV
It Night Was 70
Circus for a Small Boy 71
Body Mostly Flown 72
The Day Mother Cried 73
Freud's Container 74
On the Anniversary 76
Headstone 77
Pietà 78
Notes 81
Acknowledgements 82