Contents
I: Security
American Fanatics
Lucky Nails
Security
The Backyard
Small Casket
Blue Distances, Northern California
Dying Your Black Clothes Black
Ephebiphobia
Arriving Late at the Birthplace of Pentecostalism
Litany with Garbage Keeper and Bones
II: Hell
A Series of Earnest Offers, for the Raising of a Man from the Dead
Pocket Vampire
Hell
Linnet Street
Something in the House Was Beeping
Face Lift, One
Aubade with Eggs Breaking
My Gothic
Tijuana Clinic
It Is Good to Be amongst Catholics Again
III: Responsibility
A Shopper’s Prayer
Diet Frosting
Mollie Fancher, Marvelous Invalid, Lives without Food!
New Trousseau
Responsibility
Don’t Leave Me This Way
Summer Replacement: Pure Jesus, Early Morning Shift
When I am sick of working
If God Were a Wiseguy
IV: A Selective History of Los Angeles, in Seven Turns
Where Will You Spend Your Eternity?
A Selective History of Los Angeles, in Seven Turns
V: How's the World Treating You?
Visiting Hour
John Lennon’s Lips
Spellbind
Spirit Photograph
Winter Nap, Late Afternoon
Stereotype
Motion Picture and Television Arts Home for the Aging, Woodland Hills, California
The Last Poem
How’s the World Treating You?
Notes
Acknowledgments