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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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