Contents
Compact
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The rattlesnakes they keep in the life sciences building remind me of my dog
Everything we eat used to be alive, or still is,
Meat
A magazine article is trying to convince me the bags under my eyes equal cell death,
I realized skin care would not save my life,
Cosmopolitan
Feeling ugly,
Getting down on your knees really works
I do love to win,
Sometimes I feel exactly like satan,
Inheritance
When you thought you were better,
Will I survive this new season?
Upon Hearing about the Student Arrested at the Gun Shop
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I lived in a beautiful place
How Is a River like a Woman the Poets Want to Know
Seven Skins
Like That
My therapist is teaching me
I said yes to make sure he used a condom,
Because I Want to Die, I Go to Nordstrom Rack
43The women I thought of as popular in high school are having babies who die,
44I do still like a microwave dinner,
I am trying to drink more water
48After I was raped the second time, I lost forty pounds,
The NY Times Real Estate Section Publishes Pictures inside the Expensive Apartment Belonging to Your Ex-Boyfriend and His New Wife
Whoa, am I ever one with this marled basketweave throw in nightshade,
On the way to King Lear, we see a motorcyclist who has died,
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Birthday
My City Is Also a City
I don’t like it when you spray the house with ant poison
When I see pictures of my nieces playing in the snow,
When I Ask Myself, Wiltingly, “To What Has My Life Been Reduced?” This Is the Answer
Twitter Is Abject
Bad luck follows you
What the Machines Feel
Dream Catalog
Cave
“There is a me under this me who wishes to do lovely in this magnificent.”
A Poem in Two Attitudes
Acknowledgments