Contents
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Strology Gemini
Small Town & Terrifying
Don t Leave Your Smart Phone at Home
Every Year Trying to Get My Body Right
Taking Over for the '99 and the 2000
Strology Cancer
The Genetics of Leaving
Making Sense of What We're Made For
To the Brothers of Cesaria Evora
Girl
This Won’t Make Sense in English lénsu-marra
Broke
How’s It Goin’ Down
Deniz
I’m Not Drunk; I Have Only Swallowed a Bone!
Strology Scorpio
When I Say I Want a Baby, You Say
You Miss Me That Much Too
This Won’t Make Sense in English gudjadu
Self-Proclaimed Sad Boy
Re the dentist and his new family
Welcome Back
Strology Virgo
Foreign Summer Remembered in Traffic
Strology Aries
Tone's Posture
Flush Past the Ferry
Strology Sagittarius
Something African with a K
Great General of Impossible Battles
Somewhere There’s a Baby on the Line
This Won’t Make Sense in English pasada
Strology Leo
Big Sun Coming Strong through the Motel Blinds
GPS
This Won’t Make Sense in English
banhâ, banhera, banhóka, banhu, banu
There’s Something So Deeply Gratifying
about Welcoming Your Mother into Your
Home and Offering Her a Meal as
Nourishment and Thanks
And I Know That She Feels Beautiful—Do We Have Cancer
Strology Aquarius
31-Year-Old Lover
Simone
Your Eyes Blink Five-Minute Miles
Strology Pisces
You Will, Indeed, Always Be the Same Person after Vacation
After Finding a Hair in My Food at
Roxbury’s First Gentrified Café
Strology Capricorn
Blossom
Not Crazy Just Afraid to Ask
Strology Libra
How to End Things Well
An Email Recovered from Trash
Self on the First Date
This Won’t Make Sense in English kanala
Liberation
Acknowledgments