CONTENTS
One
For About Five Minutes in the Aughts
Pills
The Walk
Vita
Museum of Lost Acquaintance
The City She Was
Bleeding Heart
Division
Two
The Science of Parting
Beauty Regimen
The Grand Tour
Pageant of Scrutiny
The Skeptic
In-Between Elegy
The Endangered You
Stockholm Syndrome
Lunatics on My Avenue
Let Down My Bucket
Bay Bridge Abstraction
The If of Omission
Civilizing Mission
Smaller, Quieter
Red Baroness
Three
Mistakes Were Made
My Fire and Fever Fussy
Soft Power
Ars Amatoria
The Terms
Don’t Get Out Much Anymore
Rival
My Open Sesame
Redaction
Under a Wan Sun
Malaprops
Sometimes There’s a Virgin
These Halting Plaints
Don’t I Disappear
My Hegemony
Anodyne
To My Book
Notes
Acknowledgments