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| Stand Up Poetry: An Update | |
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| For Desire | |
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| What the Dead Fear | |
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| Going to Norway | |
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| The Housewife | |
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| O That Summer | |
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| Evidently, She Says | |
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| Prayer | |
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| At 4:00 A.M. Asleep | |
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| Words for My Daughter | |
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| Bad Joke | |
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| Glass Dress | |
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| Blazon | |
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| I Eat Lunch with a Schizophrenic | |
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| Pygmy Headhunters and Killer Apes, My Lover and Me | |
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| Havana | |
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| English Flavors | |
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| No Sorry | |
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| Demographics | |
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| Money As Water | |
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| Return of the Prodigals | |
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| Chapter One | |
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| Allegory of the Supermarket | |
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| Agape | |
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| His Toys | |
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| Knock Knock | |
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| Sleep Walk | |
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| the tragedy of the leaves | |
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| trouble with spain | |
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| Some Terms in Real Estate Defined | |
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| Miss Congeniality | |
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| The Dead Letter Office | |
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| Toothache | |
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| Vanity, Wisconsin | |
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| How Lies Grow | |
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| white lady | |
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| wishes for sons | |
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| I Live for My Car | |
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| Chuck Man | |
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| Embrace | |
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| Another Reason Why I Don't Keep a Gun in the House | |
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| The History Teacher | |
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| Litany | |
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| Nightclub | |
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| Things My Grandfather Must Have Said | |
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| The Garglers | |
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| Style | |
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| Form Rejection Letter | |
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| Coke | |
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| Squeak | |
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| The Rules | |
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| The Hoagie Scam | |
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| Blessing the House | |
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| Pony Express | |
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| Confession | |
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| How to Like It | |
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| Ego | |
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| I'm Dealing with My Pain | |
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| Why, on a Bad Day, I Can Relate to the Manatee | |
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| Buddhist Barbie | |
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| On Hearing the Airlines Will Use a Psychological Profile to Catch Potential Skyjackers | |
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| At the Smithville Methodist Church | |
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| The Shame Place | |
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| The Retirement of the Elephant | |
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| The Automobile | |
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| Counting Sheep | |
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| The Categories | |
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| Good Son Jim | |
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| Ape | |
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| Elephant Tears | |
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| The Crumble-Knees | |
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| The White Dress | |
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| The Politics of Narrative: Why I Am a Poet | |
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| Body and Soul | |
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| The Bride of Frankenstein | |
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| The Dirty Floor | |
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| Open Sesame | |
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| Graffiti | |
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| Marvel Mystery Oil | |
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| Why I Want to Be the Next Poet Laureate | |
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| Wordsworth's Socks | |
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| Chain Mail | |
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| Deb at the Ham Slicer | |
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| Why I Left the Church | |
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| Chickens Everywhere | |
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| Vernon | |
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| Mi Mama, the Playgirl | |
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| Dear Boy George | |
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| Slowly I Open My Eyes (gangster soliloquy) | |
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| An Unexpected Adventure | |
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| Ars Poetica | |
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| Talking about Boys | |
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| The World in My Mother's Hair | |
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| Leash | |
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| Life Is Happy | |
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| The Sciences Sing a Lullabye | |
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| My Rodeo | |
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| Listen | |
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| I Like My Own Poems | |
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| The Case against Mist | |
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| Credentials | |
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| My Moral Life | |
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| Invention | |
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| Mr. Pillow | |
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| Beriberi | |
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| The Intelligence Quotient | |
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| Don't Cheapen Yourself | |
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| Beneath the Pole of Proud Raven | |
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| The Pope at 7:00 P.M. | |
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| Toltecs | |
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| Advice Like That | |
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| just squeeze | |
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| Memory | |
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| Man of the House | |
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| Song against Natural Selection | |
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| For the Sleepwalkers | |
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| Oh Mercy | |
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| My Country | |
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| Lawrence | |
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| The Collaboration | |
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| The Kiss | |
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| Sweep | |
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| Traitor | |
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| Good Humor | |
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| Soul Train | |
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| The Children's Book of Knowledge | |
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| Your Wife, a Widow, Waits for You | |
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| Things That Have Escaped Me | |
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| Acceptance Speech | |
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| I Think I Am Going to Call My Wife Paraguay | |
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| Amazed by Chekhov | |
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| The Dance of Husbands in Bathrobes | |
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| Nosebleed, Gold Digger, KGB, Henry James, Handshake | |
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| Coloring | |
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| All Suffering Comes from Attachment | |
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| What She Wanted | |
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| Foolish Earthlings | |
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| The Seven Dwarfs, Each on His Deathbed, Remember Snow White | |
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| Dear Superman | |
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| Lurid Confessions | |
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| I Attend a Poetry Reading | |
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| Hell | |
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| A Trick | |
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| The Laundromat | |
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| Dust | |
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| Fast Gas | |
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| 2 A.M. | |
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| Tracy and Joe | |
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| Beer | |
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| Tap Dancing Lessons | |
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| The Leader of the Pack | |
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| Learning to See Crooked | |
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| Do you remember the scene in The Godfather where James Caan says, "Now make sure that the gun gets stashed in the rest room - I don't want my kid brother walking out of there with nothing but his dick in his hand"? | |
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| Letter to My Assailant | |
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| Fish I Remember | |
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| Why Life Is Worth Living | |
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| The People of the Other Village | |
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| Upon Seeing an Ultrasound Photo of an Unborn Child | |
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| So You Put the Dog to Sleep | |
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| Men with Small Heads | |
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| "I Love You Sweatheart" | |
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| Uncle Eggplant | |
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| The Bad Pilgrim Room | |
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| The Quiet World | |
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| Play It Again, Salmonella | |
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| Hazel Tells LaVerne | |
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| In Line at Pancho's Tacos | |
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| Why the Heart Never Develops Cancer | |
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| Fortune Cookies | |
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| Novel | |
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| Perfect Recall | |
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| Lightweight | |
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| Jake Addresses the World from the Garden | |
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| The Anti-Foucault Poem | |
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| My Philosophy | |
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| Saturday Morning Ultimatum | |
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| A Paranoid Egotist | |
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| Working at the Wholesale Curtain Showroom | |
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| Thanksgiving | |
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| Pocahontas | |
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| In Line at the Supermarket | |
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| The Bad Muse | |
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| The Sudden Appearance of a Monster at a Window | |
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| Justification of the Horned Lizard | |
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| The Dead Never Fight against Anything | |
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| Geocentric | |
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| To Raise the Blind on Purpose | |
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| Fiddleheads | |
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| Furious Cooking | |
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| Monkey House | |
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| Four Crows at Dusk | |
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| Honeybee upon the Tundra | |
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| A Philodendron Named Joan | |
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| What I Learned from the Movies | |
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| Drugstore Trolls | |
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| Revolt | |
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| All-Purpose Apology Poem | |
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| I Am a Finn | |
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| Aunt Sophie's Morning | |
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| How the Pope Is Chosen | |
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| Remedy for Backache | |
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| Natural Woman | |
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| Mistakes | |
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| Instructions to Her Next Husband | |
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| Naola Beauty Academy, New Orleans, 1945 | |
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| History Lesson | |
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| Yvette Mimieux in Hit Lady | |
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| Double Trouble | |
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| What We Could Do | |
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| O Paradise | |
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| Curtain Call | |
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| Termination | |
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| The Stud | |
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| Sun Worshiper | |
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| At the St. Louis Institute of Music | |
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| A Hot Property | |
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| In a Pig's Eye | |
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| Constipation | |
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| The Singer | |
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| Marrying | |
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| Biblical Also-Rans | |
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| Amplified Dog | |
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| You Don't Want to Hear a Poem, Do You? | |
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| Black Slip | |
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| The Business of Love Is Cruelty | |
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| Chapped Lips | |
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| The Wreckers | |
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| The Philosophical Emancipation | |
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| Living with Others | |
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| The Way He'd Like It | |
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| The Same Air | |
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| Pastorale for Spring | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Title Index | |
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