Table of Contents
Title Page
Copyright Page
Foreword
CHAPTER 1: BAD IDEAS
Firestorms Day One
Home Safe—Heartsickness
Babycakes
Annihilator
To Flame
Time Ain’t Nobody’s Friend
For My Father, the Drunk
I Shot the Lights Out Too
Million-Year Fuck-Face Convention
SOS Searchlights
Night of Bones
Blue Wars
Oblivion
What Is the Password for Summer Again?
Snow Lady, I Wished You
Gay As Fuck
You Will Not Miss Me When I Am Gone
CHAPTER 2: LOWER-CLASS MYTHOLOGY
Elf Mountain
A Death
One Sharp Ending
52 Pieces
A Sister Scowls
Rain on America
Becausewhy
Sisters
Electric Blue
Dreamlines for Critics
Taxi after Taxi …
Perfect/Seasons
The Break Bell
Old People Are Raised/Make Room
Blueberry Sweat
oh my we stole the show
Flickering
Wow, I’m Insane
Low Gong Goes the Clouds
pa-paw special
Anxiety and Hope
Return to Santa
For Your Tears
Orange
We Paint Together
Writing, Dying, for the Trying
The Statue of Liberty Is French, Asshole
I Am One of Those
The Whole Universe Is God’s Shithole Apartment Complex
CHAPTER 3: INFINITY BLUES
I REFUSE
Alit Daffodil
Baltic Sea
ha ha ha
i can see you still
At a Distance
Babydoll
A New Party of One
did you see?
i think i thought i loved you
Your Side Now
enough rope
Closed
Brass
Terrible
Carnations
Goodnight Little One
Every Time
Real Fucking Dreams Come True
Sit Down
too much night
infinity blues
In the Middle of the Night Goes the Bang
Lighthouse
The Rushes
i’m a sick man, buttercup
I Fucking Miss You
Hammer It Home, Slugger
That Door Is Closed
Cocooned
Where?
My Favorite … Ever
I Make Myself Sick
Red
soon it will be time to go
Spit Hits My Face
It’s Time
I Am a Cemetery
But Still
Every Day
skydragon
CHAPTER 4: CHAPTER 11
Almost Out
Cease Fire
Dream Past This
BubbleGummed
i always knew you could do better
What a “Someone Else’s” Is
like a werewolf
New Pieces
Burn Up
Chapter Eleven
Butterbrains
fuck it all
giggle
say something
27 Steps
Pretty with Laughter Coming
By the Words
A Book of Spells
Poetry Is a Zombie
Cinderella
Tonight, We Ride …
53 and 38
c’mon, let’s go
The Wind-Up
Land This Bird
Quicksilver
Me, Minus Simple Dream
Tea
My Price
i hate myself
17 Poems a Day
OK?
CHAPTER 5: TOMORROW HAPPENS
Joy
Orange-Burst
Fast As Fuck
Pay Up, and Let the Kids Play You Sissy
How Spirits Sail
Fuck That Noise, Jimmy Shoetaps
Asshole
Garbage Scepter
Old Flowers
Summer
Whatever Makes Her Happy
We’re the Worst
For Charles
No Movie Tonight
What If
Electric Nothings
War Is Awful
Fuck You, Mister Know-It-All
Sand Sea Tide
My Watch Hates You
Forget It
Fruit Gets a Lot of Still-Life Action
Aplomb
Do Not Loan Your Heart to Women
Dreams, God, Albert, and Disappointment