Front Cover; Copyright; Contents; LIFE STYLES; Mariner 3; At the Café de Kahlua on West St. Clair; Iraq; Obama's iPod; A Poet in the Kitchen; Watermelon Kindness; It Was Before Your Time; The Truth; Life Enthusiasts; Breaking Up with Miriam Mulstein; Platforms; Poems I've Thought of Writing; Your Effulgence Disorients Me; Facing the Streetcars; Drunken Horses; Scarlett Johansson; Watermelon Summer; Poetry Reading, Oak Park, Ill.; Behold the Lillies of the Field; Remember Sean?; In/Out; Titles; It's Lonely at the Top; A Comic Moment Toward the End of a Serious Relationship
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A Slightly Stoned DescartesBright Red Numbers on a Digital Morning Clock; Grants; Lateral Interference in Daily Life; I'm Not Walking in Circles; She Thinks Zen Is Too Intellectual; Ibid.; Wills; On Getting Over a Depression; Book City on a Saturday Morning; Neu Gedichte; People Who Make the Scene; How to Become a Better Person; Dismissiveness; Are Most of Us a Little Crazy?; 10 Reasons Not to Buy a Smart Car; How to Save Your Life; Dizzy; TAKE ME TO THE RIVER; To Die For; Djuna Barnes; Accounting; I Guess Baseball Players Wear Baseball Caps; ABC; Marco Polo in China; Fuses; Kansas
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Did Blavatsky Ever Meet Edward VII?Legzzz; Fluid Motion; Spreading the Word; The Nature of Language; Kiev Is Dark at Night and Very Historic. They Have Warm Lakes to the South.; Unforgettable Men; Some Shocks Are Delicious; Well-educated Well-read Young Writer Who Can't Finish His First Novel Because He's Obviously Distracted; Jack; Cool; Traffic; The 2 Giovannis; Free Fall; October; Men; OBAMA POEMS; Midwestern, Leaning East to Seaboard; Little Moron; Bruce's Yams; An NFB Full of Luminous Still Photographs; Blue Skies & Opera; Jaffa Oranges Are Sweet; Amazing & Innocent; Caricature
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Driving All the Way to TibetYou; Trends That Didn't Start in America; Painters Who Were Not Exactly Put Out of Business by Jackson Pollock's Relative Success in 1942; The Great Philosophers Don't Listen to Enough Coltrane; Computer Files; Rust Never Sleeps; Afrika/Afrique; A Couple of Interesting Brothers; Geraldine; Gerald Murphy; North of 60; Einstein & Daily Life
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Detailing a point of view that is both contentious and genial-somewhere between the outlooks of Archie Bunker and Dale Peck-the wide-ranging poems in this honest collection ponder questions concerning art, history, and psychology while reveling in the sensory experiences of everyday life. Whether exploring the modus operandi of other writers or paralleling the trajectory of a satellite with a badly ended love affair, these conversational and intellectual poems present a unique voice with a comprehensive worldview.