CONTENTS

1. Cover Page
2. Title Page
3. Copyright Page
4. Dedication
5. Contents
6. X X X
7. Ruined
8. Still Life with Gun
9. Notes for a Lecture: Keith Haring
10. Homosexuality
11. Ars Poetica
12. A Letter Regarding Your Recent Artwork
13. Liquid
14. Poem for Straight Guys
15. Like Him
16. Not All Faggots Bump Themselves off at the End of the Story
17. Middle School Summer
18. X X X
19. Blue Exits
20. X X X
21. Bleached
22. The Worried Well
23. College Summer
24. The Julianne Moore Collection
25. Jack White Gives Contract Advice to the Poet
26. Nothing
27. Takeout
28. New York Pretending to Be Paris
29. Born Again
30. Dirty
31. Still Life with Train
32. Boston: Late Summer
33. Shoot
34. This Exact Sky
35. X X X
36. This Unknown Buried in the Known
37. X X X
38. The River Phoenix Collection
39. X
40. When You Told Me Your Father Was Dying
41. Still Life with Antidepressants
42. Jennifer Lawrence
43. Still Life with a Hundred Crucifixions
44. Homosexuality
45. Evangelical
46. Lessons
47. David Beckham Is People Magazine’s Sexiest Man Alive
48. Primer for Men
49. Each Light a Knife
50. The Bar Closes But You Don’t Want to Go Home
51. Driving North on Interstate 99 the Poet Considers His Life at Forty
52. X X X
53. Notes
54. Acknowledgments

Ruined

Still Life with Gun

Notes for a Lecture: Keith Haring

Homosexuality

Ars Poetica

A Letter Regarding Your Recent Artwork

Liquid

Poem for Straight Guys

Like Him

Not All Faggots Bump Themselves off at the End of the Story

Middle School Summer

Blue Exits

Bleached

The Worried Well

College Summer

The Julianne Moore Collection

Jack White Gives Contract Advice to the Poet

Nothing

Takeout

New York Pretending to Be Paris

Born Again

Dirty

Still Life with Train

Boston: Late Summer

Shoot

This Exact Sky

This Unknown Buried in the Known

The River Phoenix Collection

X

When You Told Me Your Father Was Dying

Still Life with Antidepressants

Jennifer Lawrence

Still Life with a Hundred Crucifixions

Homosexuality

Evangelical

Lessons

David Beckham Is People Magazine’s Sexiest Man Alive

Primer for Men

Each Light a Knife

The Bar Closes But You Don’t Want to Go Home

Driving North on Interstate 99 the Poet Considers His Life at Forty

Notes

Acknowledgments

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1. Cover Page
2. Begin Reading
3. Copyright Page
4. Dedication
5. Contents
6. Notes
7. Acknowledgments