Contents
A Convention of Offenses
My Days at Sea
Our Tigers
Journal for Baudelaire
New Country
On Sports
Society for the Dissolution of Learning
Rimbaud’s Ears
Power
Spring
What to Wear for Divorce
Closet of Desserts
Less-than-Stylish Ennui
My Genuine Correspondence with Lord Byron
True Story
Two Things That Didn’t Happen to Me
How Things Work
Color Film
My Conference with Guillaume Apollinaire
Someday I’ll Take Again My Lightning Drive through Love
Jazz
Pup
Annulment
Bee
To Percy Bysshe Shelley
Disabled Power Steering
Inadequacy
High-Rise
Planet of Distraction
Lift
Fence
The Candidates
Temp
Once
My Boyfriend: A Confession
Nurse Kiki on WCW
Singles
Bob’s Our Uncle
Balm
The Band
Someone Is Messing Up the Roses
Our Lodger
Boathouse
Why I Should Be a Concierge
That Was Me
Difficult Daughters
How Need Makes Beauty
The Dress with Books on It Is Too Small
My Mettle
Big Colt
Good Night, Mr. Know-It-All
For Larry Rivers
Piecework
My Background
My Audition
Bone
Phoning Frank O’Hara
O Apollinaire, O Quai d’Orsay, O Luxembourg
Provisions
Notes
Acknowledgments