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Contents: Tow 1; The Holy Men of Jersey 3; Poem to My Father, Once a Vacuum Cleaner Salesman, Now an Ascetic 5; Tin Man 8; My Suicide Uncles 13; Dogs 16; In a Lost Language 17; Amanuensis 18; Ophelia among the Fish 21; Saint Breakdown 23; Helen of Troy 27; Menelaus 28; Helen Tells All 29; Life with Paris 31; Epilogue 32; Monologue of the Vanishing Woman 33; Mercy 34; The World’s Smallest Woman Speaks 36; Talking to Myself 38; Bread and Cinderella 40; Audrey, the Laundromat Fury, Says 42; His 44; The Orchard’s Daughter 46; I Grow Lighter at Night 47; Cleaning 49; Dusk 51; Reflections on Toledo, Black and White Plate, Page 518 in The History of Europe 52; Luck 55; For the Tattooed Man 57; The Beneficence of Spinning Bodies 58; Palmer Method 60; For Herman, Second Grade 61; Mr. Hatpin, Meet Ms. Mannequin 62; Bridgewalker 63; Still Life with Falling Garbage 64; Kicking the Dog 67; They Got All-Nite Muzak Playing at the Strip Mall 70; The Transvestite and His Mother 71; Brother Zero 72; Men in White Suits 73; On Atlantis 74; Freaks 77; Man with Baseball Bat 78; Ditch Music 80; Goat’s Head Godhead 81; The Monologues Men Draw 82; Big Sky, Little Man 83; The Flight of the Insurance Men 84; Apology 85; Emissaries from Other Worlds 87; The Last Nickel Dance 88

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