Contents -- 1 -- Accidents -- The Addiction -- After the Concert -- The Applicant -- But Not a Couch, Dear Child -- Captain Cow -- The Conversation -- The Country Life -- Dear Self -- The Dear Son -- The Death of Goldilocks -- Dogs -- The Dummies -- Eggs -- The Endless Night -- The Eternal Worm -- The Fallen Maestro -- The Family Trust -- The Great Fall -- 2 -- The Gross Situation -- How the Bull Lost His Mind -- The Hunger -- The Indefinite Article -- The Leaking -- The Life of Man -- Love -- A Lovely Cloud Poem to a Dear Friend -- The Man with a Sudden Desire to Bark at the Moon -- A Man Who Went for a Walk -- The Man Who Would Think of the Universe -- Margaret's Book -- The Marination -- Mashed Potatoes -- The Moonlighters -- The Movie Star -- Myopia -- Nature -- 3 -- Of the Night -- An Old Man Putting an Old Man to Bed -- An Old Man's Soup -- One Man's Story -- The Plagiarists -- Portrait of a Headache -- Portrait of a Realist -- The Prisms of Grief -- The Royal Jewels -- The Royal Sitting Organ -- See Jack -- The Sensual Past -- A Song of Likelihoods -- Space Journey -- The Theory of Jack's Death -- To Stop, To Go No More -- The Tradition -- The Transfigurations -- Waiting for the Fat Lady to Sing -- Acknowledgments.