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Introduction: From the Seriously Funny Mobile Unit | |
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Oh Lana Turner We Love You Get Up: TV, Movies, Music, Cars, Cartoons-Poetry and Popular Culture | |
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"Poem (Lana Turner Has Collapsed!)" | |
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"Of Time and the Line" | |
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"note, passed to superman" | |
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"Farm Implements and Rutabagas in a Landscape" | |
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"The Motorcyclists" | |
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"Country- Western Singer" | |
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"I'd Rather Look for Keys" | |
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"Understanding Al Green" | |
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"My Life at the Movies" | |
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"What I Learned from the Incredible Hulk" | |
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"Jackass: The Viewer" | |
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"Jeep Cherokee" | |
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"Two Trains" | |
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"Billy Joel Gets Philosophical on Bravo" | |
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"Vince Neil Meets Josh in a Chinese Restaurant in Malibu (after Ezra Pound)" | |
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"Foley" | |
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I Was Alone When It Hit Me: The Self Kenneth Koch "To My Twenties" | |
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"To Jewishness, Paris, Ambition, Trees, My Heart, and Destiny" | |
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"How I Got That Name" | |
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"Ode to Pork" | |
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"Vim" | |
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"Bald" | |
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"I Need to Be More French. Or Japanese." | |
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"Very Hot Day" | |
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"Shame: An Aria" | |
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"Praying Drunk" | |
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"How You See Depends on Where You Go" | |
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"Grapefruit" | |
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"A Season of Provocations and Other Ethnic Dreams" | |
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"Pronouncing My Name" | |
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"Constant Defender" | |
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"How to Like It" | |
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My Old Reptile: Close Encounters of the Sexual Kind John Berryman "Dream Song 4" | |
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"The Devils" | |
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"The Sausage Parade" | |
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"Chit- Chat with the Junior League Women" | |
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"Sex with a Famous Poet" | |
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"Crawling Out at Parties" | |
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"Breasts" | |
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"So Thick?" | |
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"Roughhousing" | |
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"While You Were Away …" | |
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"Disrespect at the Mall" | |
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"Sex in History" | |
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"Bonobo" | |
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"The Secret Life of Barbie and Mr. Potato Head" | |
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"Bad Girl" | |
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"He Told Her He Loved Her" | |
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"Girls, Look Out for Todd Bernstein" | |
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The Heart Is a Lonely Perineum: Love, Marriage, Divorce, and Hatred Gregory Corso "Marriage" | |
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"Yes" | |
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"The Theory of the Leisure Classes" | |
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"Seriousness" | |
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"My Wife's Therapist" | |
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"Midnight" | |
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"Purple Bathing Suit" | |
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"What I Want" | |
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"Mr. X" | |
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"Dim Lady" | |
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"My Beloved" | |
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"Song" | |
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"You Were Wearing" | |
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"And Day Brought Back My Night" | |
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"The Heart Is a Lonely Perineum" | |
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"For You, Sweetheart, I'll Sell Plutonium Reactors" | |
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"Why I Hate Martin Frobisher" | |
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Mothers of America Let Your Kids Go to the Movies: Family Life and Strife | |
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"Ave Maria" | |
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"The Lanyard" | |
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"Phone Call" | |
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"Delphos, Ohio" | |
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"Rice and Beans" | |
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"Our Other Sister" | |
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"Boss of the Food" | |
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"Prayer" | |
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"The Wrestler's Heart" | |
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"We Take Our Children to Ireland" | |
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"El Zapato" | |
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"Don't Know What Love Is" | |
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"Upon Seeing an Ultrasound Photo of an Unborn Child" | |
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"Autobiographical" | |
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"Muck- Clump" | |
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"Praise for the Ford LTD" | |
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Let Us Be Friends a While and Understand Our Differences: Fiends and Neighbors | |
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"Personal Poem" | |
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"You Can Change Your Life through Psychic Power" | |
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"To Whoever Set My Truck on Fire" | |
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"The Crybaby at the Library" | |
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"The Search for Baby Combover" | |
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"Heat Lightning in a Time of Drought" | |
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"A Short History of the New South" | |
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"High School Picture Re- take Day" | |
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"'Duo Tried Killing Man with Bacon'" | |
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"Brazil" | |
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"Zinc Fingers" | |
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"Verona" | |
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"I Said Yes but I Meant No" | |
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"Not That Great of an Evening" | |
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"Hate Poem" | |
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"Hate Hotel" | |
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"Amnesty" | |
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"Little Blue Nude" | |
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It Occurs to Me I Am America: Wrestling with a Huge Rococco National Identity | |
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"America" | |
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"Naturalization Exam" | |
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"Immigrant Picnic" | |
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"A French Statue" | |
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"Am�rica" | |
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"Thanksgiving" | |
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"Ode to American English" | |
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"A Fact Which Occurred in America" | |
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"America" | |
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"E Pluribus Unum" | |
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"Harryette Mullen Lecture on the American Dream" | |
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"The Year I Was Diagnosed with a Sacrilegious Heart" | |
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"Sex with Strangers" | |
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"Canada" | |
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"Consolation" | |
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From My Bowels to Your Inbox: Poetry Goes to Work Richard Garc�a "A Diver for the NYPD Talks to His Girlfriend" | |
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"The Speech" | |
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"For the Women of the All- Female Bookkeeping Department at H. G. Smithy's" | |
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"Bless Their Hearts" | |
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"On Being Fired Again" | |
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"Outdoor Chef " | |
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"Off- Track Betting" | |
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"First Job: The Southern Sweets Sandwich Shop and Bakery" | |
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"Failing the Republic" | |
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"Song of Money" (translated from the Spanish by Mark Schafer) | |
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"St. Thomas Aquinas" | |
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"The Instruction Manual" | |
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We Who Love Precise Language: Poems about Writing and Literature Franz Wright "Publication Date" | |
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"Dream Song 354" | |
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"Selected Recent and New Errors" | |
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"Appeal to the Grammarians" | |
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"The Prepositions" | |
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"Nancy Drew" | |
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"Shakespearean Sonnet" | |
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"The Revised Versions" | |
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"All She Wrote" | |
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"Revolt" | |
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"Frivolity" | |
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"Student Essay" | |
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"Workshop" | |
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"Decorum" | |
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"Fork" | |
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"Mother Lets Off a Little Steam" | |
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"Borges at the Northside Rotary" | |
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"Lawrence" | |
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"Oatmeal" | |
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The Power of Weirdness: Talking Dogs, Chickens, Horses, Ducks, Bugs, and Other Entanglements Both Human and Un- Albert Goldbarth "Power of Weirdness" | |
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"Spiritual Chickens" | |
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"Nobody Here but Us" | |
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"Homer's Seeing- Eye Dog" | |
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"Something Like Happiness" | |
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"The Dogs in Dutch Paintings" | |
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"Fieldwork" | |
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"Sorting the Entanglements" | |
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"Daffy Duck in Hollywood" | |
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"Trigger Tries to Explain" | |
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"Do You Love Me?" | |
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"Dharma" | |
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"Chicken Bucket" | |
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"The List of Famous Hats" | |
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"Notes for My Body Double" | |
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Mockery Was Still the Unforgivable Sin: Religion and Other Metaphysical Meanderings | |
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"Retro Creation" | |
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"Goodtime Jesus" | |
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"The Book of Lies" | |
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"My Crucifi xion" | |
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"Fubar" | |
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"A Little History" | |
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"Prophet" | |
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"Communication" | |
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"A Blasphemy" | |
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"Ode on Satan's Power" | |
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"Wanda Why Aren't You Dead" | |
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"Group Therapy Lounge, Columbia, South Carolina" | |
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"Our Spring Trip" | |
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"The Antichrist in Arkansas" | |
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"'A wooden eye. An 1884 silver dollar. A homemade explosive. A set of false teeth. And a 14- karat gold ashtray,'" | |
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"Ode to Greens" | |
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Everything Prophesied Will Erupt: The End of the World Susan Wood "Horoscope" | |
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"'Russia is big and so is China'" | |
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"Irreconcilable Differences" | |
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"Replicas" | |
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"Upon Hearing of My Friend's Marriage Breaking Up, I Envision Attack from Outer Space" | |
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"Wrong Number after Midnight" | |
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"Unusual Summer Weather" | |
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"Astute Chinese Aside" | |
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"A Pocket Guide to Trouble" | |
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"Elvis, Be My Psychopomp" | |
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"Apocalypse" | |
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Credits | |
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Index of Authors | |