Contents
X X X
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
X X X
Blue Exits
X X X
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
X X X
This Unknown Buried in the Known
X X X
The River Phoenix Collection
X
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
X X X
Notes
Acknowledgments