The star-ledger -- Gravedigger's birthday -- Education -- Emperor -- Spring begins in Hinckley, Ohio -- Daily grind -- Roy Orbison's last three notes -- Christmas Eve, 1975: what I realize now -- Bastards with badges -- Upon being told again there are no rhymes for certain words -- The noises I make -- New Jersey -- After I read Sandy Zulauf's "Across the bar," Victoria takes me skiing -- Reloading the stapler -- Bandages -- The suicidologist -- Sunrise, sunset -- The 18th poem -- The poems I regret in my first book -- For those who grew up on a river -- Filling in the new address book -- My mother's last cigarette -- Burying Father -- Another poem on the death of a dog -- A poem about a refrigerator -- Upon hearing that baseball is boring to america's youth -- Aubade -- Bradford gives a lecture on the state of modern art to a large, distinguished audience -- Upon being asked why I dedicated my first book to my mother when there's not a single poem in there about her -- Facetious -- Pregnant -- Sex with Emily Dickinson -- Mythology in the shop-rite -- No sex -- 4 Metaphors, nothing more -- For the children of the World Trade Center victims -- No chaser -- Upon learning that hearts can become stones -- Trash -- Down to a tune-up.
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