Acknowledgments THE BED Petrarch: Sonney 196 Marriage Psalm Dancing out of the Shower Kabbalah It Falling Through In Her Dream He Touches Her Shoulder In a Hotel in Portugal At Suicide Beach How To Live in This World Throwing Stones at the Beach And the Sea Takes Their Wishes THING IN THE MIRROR Dark Lord Insect Wings Zombies Thing in the Mirror Nightmare Kiss The Grave Spider Woman Spider Man The Orchid Creature He Pays the Bill at the Sidewalk Café THE HAPPIEST MAN IN THE WORLD The Audit The Happiest Man in the World He Gets Up off the Floor She Settled for Him His Younger Wife They Had Terrific Sex He Goes to See the Doctor After Eighteen Years WHAT SHE SAID Petrarch: Sonnet 195 Break up with Him (A How-to Manual) Another Troy The Hook Antonyms What She Said What He Heard What He Tries Not to Say What Her Father Said Laughing Poem Screw the Beatles A Bowl of Bean Soup DRIVING AWAY FROM HER Bad Drivers After She Sat Down on the Couch and Told Him the Marriage Was Done The Pits His Wheels Are Whining Suicide Road He Saw Her Car AFTERMATH A Children's Tale Until She Left Out, Out, Out Zero at the Bone The Bed Is Wide George Harrison Died around the Same Time His Marriage Did He Wishes He Were Dead Sad Jazz On a Blow-Up Bed in the Study of His Father's Apartment Cut Off Insects Wet Paper The Ghost Limb Barbeque Aftermath END OF THE VACATION Two Tickets His Niece and Nephew on the Beach Drinking Cuervo Gold with Andy, Joe and Roman and a Guy from Liverpool Named Sven at Roman's Bar in Serifos, Greece Heart Sushi Waking Up Drunk In These Old European Towns the Streets Wrap Back upon Themselves Like an Insidious Argument After the Night Swim Foxes In the Ghetto Bright Surface Seen through a Train Window The Truth Is He Never Was Good at Flirting, But His Friends Did Their Best to Set Him Up A Cathedral in San Gimignano End of the Vacation GET ZEN He Murders His Darlings Like a Man in a Cuban Painting Another Drunken Phone Call Free Minutes on a Cell Phone The Dao of Being Dumped Moving Day The Real Tin Flower The Intelligent Animal Get Zen Refusal to Mourn He Had Some Sort of Demon Perched Upon His Shoulder The New Math Worn Nathan Tells Him Waiting for a Bus in Oakland Notes on the Poems.