Poems.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 69-70).

Performing a warped masculinity en route to the Metro -- Witness to the woman I am not -- Pushing up onto its elbows, the fable lifts itself into fact -- Nothing was ever itself only -- Take it out of the boy -- Any unkindness -- Portrait with stiff upper lip -- Slough -- Anesthesia is a country you leave for America -- pleas -- The day ___ died -- Gateway -- About a white city -- A statement from no one, incorporated -- The requital -- Snowfall throws its pretty noise upon a weary sameness -- How to keep it down/throw it off/defer until asleep -- On being a grid one might go off of -- Retrograde -- Untitled (we aint even posed to be here) -- Porch smoke: an implication in three acts -- I wish I knew how it would feel -- On self-reliance -- Consent -- Exit hex -- Orientation -- Necessary room -- To every faggot who pulverized me for being a faggot -- Black can sleep -- On life as an exercise in preparing to die -- Carolina prayer -- Exchange -- The leak in this old building -- The fratricide -- Theory for expansion -- They speak of the body and one sits up straight -- A victim dissolves into tears -- Paroxysm.