Table of Contents
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I Lost My Mother at Bloomingdale's 13
Clive Christian No. 1 14
Guilty Pleasures 16
Bottled Water 17
Why People Really Have Dogs 18
Dolphins sleep with one eye open 19
Watching Raintree County at 3am 20
Fever Dreams 21
My Neighbor's Cigar 22
I Hate It When She Says That 24
In the land of freeways, she takes streets 26
Sardines 28
She Keeps Fruit Loops in Her Pocket 30
My ears have been numb since Danville, 31
My Mother Wants Extra Crisp Bacon 32
They Only Want Meatloaf 34
Lips 35
If you like this then you'll like that 36
Second Hand Couch 37
It Lives Inside Him 39
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Gail Explains about My Mother's Glasses 43
Because she can't tell him she loves him 45
Inseminating the Wolves 46
Corned Beef 48
Sadness 50
They're taking chocolate milk off the menu, 52
My Mother Has a Fitful Sleep 53
Those People from Cleveland 54
Skin Deep 55
iPhone 65
What the Wind Did 57
We Have Legs, Too 58
Discoveries 59
Floating in Hot Springs 60
While Washing the Dinner Dishes 62
A Table Near the Water 64
It's Not That 66
At the Airport 68
dreams do that 70
Strange Lights Next Door 71
How to Shop for a Poet 72
Extraction 74
III
New Year's Eve Party 77
The Salvation Army Won't Take the Futon 78
Hotel Room 79
His Other Girlfriend 80
Sorry 81
Boob Job 82
No One Bleeds Forever 84
Why Do They Do That? 85
Little Glass Dishes 86
Ninth Grade Boyfriend 88
Inertia 90
Giving Myself Up 91
The People in the Health Food Store 92
Board & Care Clock 94
Solace 95
Game Over 97
"How was your weekend," 99
Slice of Moon 101
