Table of Contents

• Forewarned by the Editor
• Author's Foreword
• Interview with Richard, 1990
• Crazy Atlanta Poems, Early 1990's
• Interview with Mike Amundsen, 2000
• The Red Period
• Interview with Max Osten, 1996
• Post-Disaster Poems, Mid 1990's
• Interview with Sonia Rollins, 1999
• Goddess
• Flashing
• Whine
• Hit and Run Hopscotch
• ANNELIESE, Chant
• The Crisis Unit, Reminiscence, The Hypostasis of Vital Time
• A Subtle Amendment to the Liquor Laws
• ELECTRON GUN RUMINATIONS, Another High School Disaster
• Interview with Elsibeth L., 2000
• The Stripper Cycle, Late 1990's
• Machinery, A Philosopher Dreams, TRISMEGISTUS' FAILURE, A Complaint For Cupid, Night's Breath
• Ephemerality, ON RECEIVING A GRAD SCHOOL CATALOGUE, Reply to Marcella, The Churchyard
• The Frogs, Virtual Intoxication, Spring, Maya
• State of the Affair, The Bit Actor, And She Is Still Not Listening
• Later Poems - from "VIRTUOUS IDOLATRY"
• Short Stories & Other Mistakes, 1999, 
  (Strippers, Madmen, Whores, and Other Saints):
• RAVEN
• HELL
• AN AVERAGE FRIDAY NIGHT
• Informal Essays:
• Devolution in Kansas
• A letter to the editor of Dahlonega Nugget, 1999
• Sketches and Observations
• About the Author