80
I knew we'd be seeing each other again.
It looks like everyone else is here, …
79
I know she’ll be the one who comes for me,
and it shouldn’t matter what she …
78 (valentine)
Momma, are there other wooden children?
Momma, am I your only wooden …
77
On Sunday, bring your broken promises,
the two of them, fragrant as tangolas,
…
76
I’m only going to ask you for one thing.
From now on, I don’t want to have …
75
I'm afraid that child isn't here anymore.
He left on the fog from last February,
…
2.4
Tire me with white lies and petty pretty
complicity—we've never ventured …
74 (charge my card)
When I die, invite everyone over.
Make sure I’m stripped down, …
73 (French kiss)
Maybe you can lie your way out of this.
You know I’ve always …
(second crown)
58 (?) → 35 (falling) → 55 → 53.2 → 53 → 52 → 2 → 24 → 50 (the …
72
"Without lies, none of us are beautiful."
"Not me, him, not you, her, not …
71 (valentine)
Be mine. Don't be friendly to other people.
Don't smile at all …
70 (New Year's)
In spring, sorrow looks through my socket skull
and starlings …
65.3
I don't think I'm ready to talk to you. / It could be that I'm afraid of …
65.2
I don't think I'm ready to talk to you.
It could be that I'm afraid of something.
…
2.3
Tire me with white lies and petty pretty
complicity—we've never ventured …
68.3
Every once in a while, I get a hall pass,
which is good because I need enemies,
…
2.2
Tire me with white lies and petty pretty
complicity—we've never ventured …
69
You know ten years don't matter to me,
that when you drew your too-sharp fingernail
…
68.2
Every once in a while, I get a hall pass,
which is good because I need enemies,
…
8.2
I walk with the dreams of the child I was,
who walks with his father, handsome …
68
Every once in a while, I get a hall pass,
which is good because I need enemies,
…
67
We can't hold everything, but we try / sometimes, to hold them longer than …
66 (china shop)
Ok, you didn't need to break something.
When people come into …
65
I don't think I'm ready to talk to you.
It could be that I'm afraid of something.
…
64 (I'm not mad, beautiful)
I'm not mad, beautiful, that would be
like blaming …
63
You show up when you want me to help you.
You show up, talking about all you've …
62
I might have a present for you, this time.
All gifts are lies. But I don't …
61
She got every single thing she wanted
by avoiding smiling liars like me.
She …
60 (little miss)
Little miss, little miss, don't you miss me? / Miss me, miss …
59
Just a few minutes after eleven, / and I won't be sorry until sunset, / when …
58 (?)
Didn't you come for trouble, and find it? / Didn't you wave to the twelve …
57 (13 lies)
The truth is, I only tell 13 lies.
Lie no. 2: I lie in praise of …
56
She didn't get it all, but she got most.
What little there is now, is as salt,
…
55
This way madness lies. This way madness lies, / in the blue volt of an hourly …
53.2
Why would I lie when I can just be wrong?
I've fallen off course, drifted …
53
Why would I lie when I can just be wrong? / I've fallen off course, drifted …
52
But actually, you're crazy, aren't you? / Aren't you on the corner of the …
51
Our little losses just the cheer of crows; / a laughing sheen on the face …
50 (the barmaid's freckled hand)
Let me tell you what a liar I am
I'll tell you …
(first crown)
36 → 49 → 45 (miracle cure) → 46 → 47 (jest cause) → 37 → 48 (other …
49
I promise you darkness, and blinding sun,
and a carnival wheel at twilight,
…
48
Why not? This place is burning to the ground.
The workers are gone, flown …
47
The asylum rescinds the naked law.
Given that we've woken to the surprise,
of …
46
Is this the place for the miracle cure?
Here, sitting around this veneer table,
…
45 (miracle cure)
Is this the exhibit to the conquered?
Is this where I come to …
44 (twenty-dollar holiday)
Death is a twenty-dollar holiday.
The first dollar …
43
I keep waking up in this burlap sack.
I'm on the edge of the Hudson River.
There …
42 (old friend)
Applebees and a strip club, all for free.
Isn't that heaven to …
41
All I really want to do is stab people.
Once, I got a chance to do it.
But the …
40
She smelled like puke and a bar, and childhood; / where love is a dozen thoughtless …
39
Is that you again, standing next to me?
Wearing last night's dress, missing …
38
Possession is nine tenths of the law,
where I come from, where city met meadows,
…
37
On fire at the apothecary,
all that effort, melting in sealed boxes.
Aisle upon …
36 (dangerous)
Dangerous, is the smiling face of desire.
Have we not always known …
35 (falling)
Warm from the cradle of God's presence,
rushing in the breath of …
34 (one for the team)
We are all children here—against the wall
of the gymnasium—…
33
Little did you know about the implant.
You thought so so hard about the couple,
…
32 (paean)
We of waste, waisted we, who would squander
sorrow, squander …
31 (sorry R)
Sorry R. I am so so sorry R.
Immodest me, modest of modesty,
giving …
30 (bleavenly hiss)
Me alone, dear God, in these hills of flesh, making
nothing …
29 (2B at “The Tannery”)
You and I. Then we, on the railroad tracks. / walking …
28 (your name is Slim, slim)
I am more gaunt than my slender zero,
counted not …
27 (Queen of Ice)
O bitter light, O queen of ice, O wicked flicker
candlelight, …
26 (more Ann)
How is it you would rely upon me?
I would lie at your command, relied …
25
Heaven descend, wash over this ocean,
wink at the wretched, and leave us islands
…
24
Smash smash smash, sex and half, sex and half. / Woman and a man, woman and …
23 (double R)
Double R and you know who you are.
And I'm the friendly among the …
22 (seated at her table)
To a woman like that, I'm nobody. / But this other woman …
21 (just years)
She leaned over the bar to arm wrestle.
She'd pulled me to a stool …
20 (John John)
John John automaton, born to never,
never learn. John John automaton, …
19 (saints and winners)
She shows up, hangs around, and smiles at me.
I hover …
18
Sea-moon blue. He marries the Paris sky,
her eyes, and a loose knit dress …
17 (life unweaved)
You live on the other side of the world,
and somewhere between …
16 (a long night)
A long night, my love, my sweet sick sunrise,
my drunken dawn, …
Before (15)
Before, before, we are children afraid / of sleep, of the hallway …
14 (eleven)
Eleven years later she comes to me
and remembers she said "in ten …
13 (holiday)
Whatever is there to explain, my dear?
The tinker of regrets and …
12 (Never Forever)
In Never Forever we live together,
eternal in terminal wanderlust.
…
11 (joust that hack built)
Cruel crisis, and we, dusty dividends,
are flies fleeing, …
10
Sad, alone, she is reaching for the world
with the mist of her breath on the …
9 (seventy)
Seventy-seven ladies of sorrow,
dear hearts, cruel hearts, broken …
8
I walk with the dreams of the child I was,
who walks with his father, handsome …
7
Her breath catches. I am white heat and ashes.
"I tore it outta the flesh of …
6
Come to me like tomorrow to a child.
Like the day is cradle, blue world below,
…
5 (little loser)
Nobody loves me like my little loser.
She would lift me, love …
4 (adieu)
She comes like a wrecking ball in winter,
razing the old tenement and …
3
Vainglorious somethings undone by time.
No time for lust or enlightened delusions,
…
2
Tire me with white lies and petty pretty
complicity—we've never ventured far
…
1
Sunshine or gold on a family urn
is a hue hard to hold, so I just stare.
How …