My favorite joke about white people is any variation that mentions how we can't help but comment on the weather. Probably because there's nothing controversial about heat, cold, rain, humidity. Topics that follow from weather talk, too, are easy: the weekend, trouble our pets cause, how long or short the week has felt, whether we've had too much/too little coffee.
- Contents
- Frontmatter
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Part 1
- Invocation
- Apologia of Having No Clear Answers
- Note to Self: Age 31 to 75
- New Galactic Model
- Gramma McCarthy's Coffee Cake
- Catalog of Interstices (3)
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- Viscosity
- Imagine a City
- Today You Will Die or You Won't
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- Daydream
- Muscle Memory
- Apologia of a God Who Abandoned Its Creation
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- Vices & Virtues of Isolationism
- One of Those Kind
- 문아
- Dust
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Part 2
- Invocation
- Starting from Buffalo
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- Apologia for Contributing to the Big Data Police State
- Decriminalize Everything
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- All the Lives I Could Not Live: Prologue
- Synesthesia
- A Confirmation
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- The Uncertainty Principle of Spaghettification
- Dearth & Distance
- From the Shadow (5)
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- Pantoum that Keeps Expanding
- Christmas Party Bean Dip
- Catalog of Interstices (2)
- Rushford Lake
- Notes to Self: Age 27 to 17 & 37
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Part 3
- Invocation
- Note to Self: Age 35 to 10
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- Forging the Boy
- McCarthy-Pinelli meatballs, with red sauce
- Duende (1)
- The Beauty of the Metaphor is that it Breaks Down
- Werner Heisenberg Admits He Never Loved
- Black is the Color—
- What's Missing
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- Gramma Teresi's Lasagna, prepared by Yia-Yia
- Further Suggestions for Scrutinizing the Plan
- Little Wing
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- Let's Grow Young Together
- Apologia of Using a Making the Sausage Metaphor
- I Feel the Earth Move
- Yia-Yia & Papou's Lamb
- One Day I'll Fly Away
- Pulp
- The Men of Chernobyl
- Dead Letters (to Brandon)
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Part 4
- Invocation
- Note to Self: Present Day
- I let them drift away
- Ars Poetica
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- Duende (3)
- Mom's Oatmeal Raisin Cookies
- It Only Takes Two to Make a Murder of Crows
- When Awake
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- When Your Life Was Low
- Found Slush Cake
- The water may rise sharply
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- What He Didn't Know Before
- The Author at 11 Wanted to be Reincarnated as a Dog
- Mom's Lemon Cheesecake
- In the ocean / The masses
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- Doppler Effect
- Blood Clot: Coda
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Part 5
- Invocation
- Refilling the Well
- Note to Baby Bear
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- Catalog of Interstices (4)
- Aubade: Savage Gulf State Park, Sawmill Campground, Site #5
- Aubade: Argentina
- From the Shadow (3)
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- Apologia for Never Saying What I Mean
- Still Life, Still Life
- Sarah's Lemon Donut Painkiller
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- Catalog of Interstices (1)
- Coffee Tomorrow
- Apologia of Writing Basically the Same Poem Again & Again
- Part 6
- Backmatter