Contents
One
How It Will End
Duper’s Delight
If You Really Want to
Madonna and Me
Mack
Tina and the Bruised Hearts
Takeout, 2008
Ritual
Recession Commandments
UNEMPLOYMENT
Heartburn
An Unmarried Woman
Two
Kindergarten Boyfriend
Fourth Grade Boyfriend
My Shortcut
Lower East Side Boyfriend
The Widow
Loaded
Cleopatra Invented the First Vibrator
My New Chum
A Different Story
You’re Looking at the Love Interest
Or Wherever Your Final Destination May Be
Courtship
Worst Case Scenario
And So
Old Love Poems
Expired
Three
Little Icaruses
Violenza Sessuale
My Strip Club
Victor
You Don’t Get to Tell Me What to Do Ever Again
Self-Portrait in Hydrogen Peroxide
Proposal
Ten Days before We Meet, I Dream You
I Read
Sleep Seeds
Having a Diet Coke with You
Ode to Your Eyebrows
Acknowledgments