CONTENTS

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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

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Blue Exits

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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

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This Unknown Buried in the Known

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The River Phoenix Collection

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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

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Notes

Acknowledgments