CONTENTS

Entering Cheyenne

Missouri Dope

Legging It in Los Angeles

Concrete Oakland

San Jose Sheen

Sleepwalking in Camden

Unmaking Chester

A Trenton Education

Close Call in Norristown

Stagnant Riverside

Cheap Rooms in Kensington, Philadelphia

Saluting the Troops in Marcus Hook

Canned Beer and Slim Jim in Vineland

Losing It in Joliet

Hungry in Chicago?

Columbus’s Bottoms

Abandoned in Bensalem

Lower-Class Upper Manhattan

Adrift in Levittown

Fracking Williston

Trashed in Wolf Point

Tri-Cities’ Dirt

Squirrelly Portland

Mining Wisconsin

Free Grub in Jackson

Growing Old in Osceola

Squatting in New Orleans

Hanging on in Taylor

Smug Bubble in Washington, DC

Jim Thorpe, War and the Liberal Arts in Carlisle

Parched California

Dead Centralia

Postscript: A Poem, “State of the Union”