Stand Up Poetry: An Expanded Anthology Book

	Stand Up Poetry: An Update
	For Desire	1
	What the Dead Fear	2
	Going to Norway	3
	The Housewife	5
	O That Summer	6
	Evidently, She Says	7
	Prayer	8
	At 4:00 A.M. Asleep	9
	Words for My Daughter	9
	Bad Joke	12
	Glass Dress	14
	Blazon	16
	I Eat Lunch with a Schizophrenic	17
	Pygmy Headhunters and Killer Apes, My Lover and Me	18
	Havana	19
	English Flavors	22
	No Sorry	23
	Demographics	25
	Money As Water	27
	Return of the Prodigals	28
	Chapter One	30
	Allegory of the Supermarket	32
	Agape	34
	His Toys	36
	Knock Knock	36
	Sleep Walk	37
	the tragedy of the leaves	39
	trouble with spain	40
	Some Terms in Real Estate Defined	42
	Miss Congeniality	44
	The Dead Letter Office	44
	Toothache	45
	Vanity, Wisconsin	45
	How Lies Grow	46
	white lady	47
	wishes for sons	48
	I Live for My Car	49
	Chuck Man	50
	Embrace	51
	Another Reason Why I Don't Keep a Gun in the House	52
	The History Teacher	53
	Litany	54
	Nightclub	55
	Things My Grandfather Must Have Said	57
	The Garglers	59
	Style	60
	Form Rejection Letter	61
	Coke	63
	Squeak	65
	The Rules	67
	The Hoagie Scam	68
	Blessing the House	70
	Pony Express	72
	Confession	73
	How to Like It	74
	Ego	76
	I'm Dealing with My Pain	77
	Why, on a Bad Day, I Can Relate to the Manatee	78
	Buddhist Barbie	79
	On Hearing the Airlines Will Use a Psychological Profile to Catch Potential Skyjackers	80
	At the Smithville Methodist Church	82
	The Shame Place	84
	The Retirement of the Elephant	85
	The Automobile	86
	Counting Sheep	87
	The Categories	87
	Good Son Jim	88
	Ape	89
	Elephant Tears	90
	The Crumble-Knees	91
	The White Dress	92
	The Politics of Narrative: Why I Am a Poet	93
	Body and Soul	96
	The Bride of Frankenstein	99
	The Dirty Floor	101
	Open Sesame	102
	Graffiti	102
	Marvel Mystery Oil	103
	Why I Want to Be the Next Poet Laureate	104
	Wordsworth's Socks	105
	Chain Mail	106
	Deb at the Ham Slicer	107
	Why I Left the Church	109
	Chickens Everywhere	110
	Vernon	111
	Mi Mama, the Playgirl	112
	Dear Boy George	113
	Slowly I Open My Eyes (gangster soliloquy)	114
	An Unexpected Adventure	115
	Ars Poetica	116
	Talking about Boys	118
	The World in My Mother's Hair	119
	Leash	120
	Life Is Happy	121
	The Sciences Sing a Lullabye	122
	My Rodeo	123
	Listen	124
	I Like My Own Poems	127
	The Case against Mist	129
	Credentials	131
	My Moral Life	132
	Invention	134
	Mr. Pillow	136
	Beriberi	138
	The Intelligence Quotient	140
	Don't Cheapen Yourself	141
	Beneath the Pole of Proud Raven	143
	The Pope at 7:00 P.M.	146
	Toltecs	148
	Advice Like That	149
	just squeeze	150
	Memory	151
	Man of the House	152
	Song against Natural Selection	153
	For the Sleepwalkers	154
	Oh Mercy	155
	My Country	156
	Lawrence	157
	The Collaboration	159
	The Kiss	161
	Sweep	162
	Traitor	164
	Good Humor	167
	Soul Train	169
	The Children's Book of Knowledge	171
	Your Wife, a Widow, Waits for You	172
	Things That Have Escaped Me	173
	Acceptance Speech	176
	I Think I Am Going to Call My Wife Paraguay	179
	Amazed by Chekhov	181
	The Dance of Husbands in Bathrobes	182
	Nosebleed, Gold Digger, KGB, Henry James, Handshake	183
	Coloring	185
	All Suffering Comes from Attachment	186
	What She Wanted	187
	Foolish Earthlings	188
	The Seven Dwarfs, Each on His Deathbed, Remember Snow White	189
	Dear Superman	191
	Lurid Confessions	192
	I Attend a Poetry Reading	193
	Hell	194
	A Trick	195
	The Laundromat	197
	Dust	198
	Fast Gas	199
	2 A.M.	200
	Tracy and Joe	202
	Beer	204
	Tap Dancing Lessons	206
	The Leader of the Pack	207
	Learning to See Crooked	208
	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"?	209
	Letter to My Assailant	210
	Fish I Remember	212
	Why Life Is Worth Living	213
	The People of the Other Village	215
	Upon Seeing an Ultrasound Photo of an Unborn Child	216
	So You Put the Dog to Sleep	217
	Men with Small Heads	218
	"I Love You Sweatheart"	219
	Uncle Eggplant	220
	The Bad Pilgrim Room	220
	The Quiet World	221
	Play It Again, Salmonella	222
	Hazel Tells LaVerne	223
	In Line at Pancho's Tacos	224
	Why the Heart Never Develops Cancer	225
	Fortune Cookies	226
	Novel	228
	Perfect Recall	230
	Lightweight	232
	Jake Addresses the World from the Garden	233
	The Anti-Foucault Poem	234
	My Philosophy	236
	Saturday Morning Ultimatum	236
	A Paranoid Egotist	236
	Working at the Wholesale Curtain Showroom	237
	Thanksgiving	238
	Pocahontas	239
	In Line at the Supermarket	240
	The Bad Muse	242
	The Sudden Appearance of a Monster at a Window	243
	Justification of the Horned Lizard	244
	The Dead Never Fight against Anything	246
	Geocentric	248
	To Raise the Blind on Purpose	249
	Fiddleheads	250
	Furious Cooking	252
	Monkey House	254
	Four Crows at Dusk	256
	Honeybee upon the Tundra	258
	A Philodendron Named Joan	260
	What I Learned from the Movies	262
	Drugstore Trolls	264
	Revolt	265
	All-Purpose Apology Poem	266
	I Am a Finn	268
	Aunt Sophie's Morning	269
	How the Pope Is Chosen	270
	Remedy for Backache	272
	Natural Woman	272
	Mistakes	273
	Instructions to Her Next Husband	273
	Naola Beauty Academy, New Orleans, 1945	274
	History Lesson	275
	Yvette Mimieux in Hit Lady	276
	Double Trouble	277
	What We Could Do	279
	O Paradise	280
	Curtain Call	281
	Termination	282
	The Stud	283
	Sun Worshiper	284
	At the St. Louis Institute of Music	285
	A Hot Property	286
	In a Pig's Eye	287
	Constipation	288
	The Singer	289
	Marrying	290
	Biblical Also-Rans	291
	Amplified Dog	293
	You Don't Want to Hear a Poem, Do You?	295
	Black Slip	296
	The Business of Love Is Cruelty	298
	Chapped Lips	300
	The Wreckers	301
	The Philosophical Emancipation	303
	Living with Others	304
	The Way He'd Like It	305
	The Same Air	306
	Pastorale for Spring	308
	Acknowledgments	309
	Title Index	319