Acknowledgments
The Accomplice
I. Somewhere Else We Have to Be
This Poem Had Better Be about the World We Actually Live In
No More Mail from Baltimore
So Much Gone and Going
The Flamingos Have Left the Building
In My Dream, Coleman Hawkins
Goodbye to the Blockhead
The Only Time There Is
All Night and Always
The All-Dressed-Up-and-Going-Nowhere Ghosts
II. Untold Days on Earth
Uncle Bud, Unshaken in the Wake of Sputnik: October 1957
Home Movies of the Space Race
Not Exactly Rocket Science
The Lunar Sympathizers
A Brief History of the Moon in Twentieth-Century Song, and Then Some
III. A Lifetime of Parts & Labor, Guaranteed
A Pocket Guide to Trouble
The Perfect Stranger
Maybe Just One Poem in This Fecund Spring Where Patricia Doesn't Suddenly Appear, Waylaying Whatever It Was I Must Have Had in Mind
Danse Clewellian, or: Is There a Doctor in the House?
Meanwhile, Back at the Typewriter, I'm Hoping for a Greater Acceptance
How the Visiting Poet Ended Up in the Abandoned Nike Missile Silo in Pacific, Missouri, after Surviving a Morning of Grade-School Classroom Appearances on Behalf of One of the Better Impulses in the History of Human Behavior
Albert Einstein Held Me in His Arms
IV. Jack Ruby's America
i. Jack Ruby Orders the Chicken Salad: November 21, 1963
ii. The Chicago Cowboy
iii. Jack Ruby Talks Business with the New Girl: November 21, 1963
iv. The Difference a Day Makes
v. Jack Ruby Spends His Last New Year's Eve with His Sister, Telling the Truth as He Knows It: Parkland Hospital, December 31, 1966