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Are you ready boys
Are you ready girls
Are you ready boys
Are you ready girls
—Throbbing Gristle Contents 2
You’ll Get Better Attention When You Die
7
In the Corner of a Room Where You Would Never Look
8
Terminal
9
Factory
10
Confidence
11
In Which the Pathetic Fallacy Wants to Even More
13
Spring, or, I Don’t Know Everything Is Wrong with Me
14
Honky
15
Worst Things First
16
Speedy
17
Summer’s Other
18
Thunderbride
19
Medusa
20
Dear Rotten Garden—
21
The Editors
22
What Are Predators but Parasites That Kill You Faster
23
Burning Candygram
24
Almost as Good as What We Destroyed
25
The Bell Is a Recording
26
Strategy
27
Pat Robertson Transubstantiation Engine No. 1
28
Pat Robertson Transubstantiation Engine No. 2
29
Pat Robertson Transubstantiation Engine No. 3
30
Pat Robertson Transubstantiation Engine No. 4
31
Pat Robertson Transubstantiation Engine No. 5
32
Pat Robertson Transubstantiation Engine No. 6
33
Historical Action Figures
34
The Perspective Fairy
35
Bowerbird
36
The Year Is Always Two Years Ago
37
Junior National Treasure Cemetery
38
Grief!
39
Better Than Okay, with Androgyny
40
Being Our Pictures
41
A Place I Plan to Admire as Much as One I Can’t See
42
The Anxiety of Coincidence
43
My Brightness Button
44
Look Who Came Dressed as the Sun
45
Poem That Wants to Know If We Need Anything from the Store
46
Poem That Wants to Know When You’re Taking out the Trash
47
Poem That Wants to Serve You Comfort and Despair
48
Poem That Wants to Be Something Rather Worse
49
Poem That Wants to Use Revelation 3:16 as an Epigraph
50
Poem That Wants to Be Less Amazed by a Man in a T-Shirt That Says Similes Liberation Army
51
The Beginning of How We Started Dying
52
Further Strategies for Trapping the Dead
53
Witness
54
By the Number 3
55
Our Fairy Decorator
56
Storylines
57
Clouds Mistaken for Nearby Clouds
58
Two More
59
This Land Is Mylar
60
A Small Gesture of Gratitude
About the Author
Books by Mark Bibbins
