In the Human Zoo.

Intro -- Contents -- This Worm of Furnace -- I've Never Swum with Dolphins -- A Transparent Man Is Hard to Find -- Portrait of My Mother as Mule -- Origin Story -- Walking Home After the Graveyard Shift -- When, at Last, I Meet My Mother Again -- Wings Poised Like Knives -- Portrait of Myself at Fourteen, as Saint Rose of Lima -- Senbazuru -- Palinode: Myoclonus -- Faint -- This Animal Self -- When I'm Gone, Don't Remember Me -- Outside Paradise, Everything Is Other -- The Beast by Its Harness -- In the Human Zoo -- Security Guard, Robert Gober's Untitled (1989-96) -- On Fallibility -- Portrait of My Daughter as Pink Flamingo -- Many Dangers, Toils, and Snares -- My Father's Parable -- For Sport -- On Confession -- Just Enough to Draw Blood -- Looking for the Tell -- Pentimenti -- I Found Love in the Hall of Mirrors -- This Page from My Pillow Book, This Page from My Bestiary -- After He Breaks Her Arm -- Shivaree for the Bride-to-Be -- Apologia -- Such Guts as Gifts -- Portrait of My Lover as Zombie -- When the Dazzle Isn't Gradual -- Maculate Conception -- Love Song for the Nutria -- Portrait of My Daughter as Dominatrix -- Fifteen Years Later, My Mother Apologizes -- Portrait of Myself as Precious Stone, as Accident Waiting to Happen -- Maggot Therapy -- Nothing Gets Me Hotter than a Punch in the Face -- Intersections -- Cicatrix -- Howl -- Portrait of My Mother as Kitchen Utensil -- Majie -- Portrait of My Lover as Medium -- Refuge -- If Life Gives You Lemons, Make -- Apology for My Recklessness -- Mother, Self-Portrait, 2006 -- Aubade -- Dear Lindy and Balboa, Dear Charleston and Shag, -- Acknowledgments.

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