Contents -- Beginnings -- The Ass-End of Everything -- The Plagues -- Home Remedies -- The Canals of Mars -- Look Both Ways -- The Theory of Dog Shit -- God -- God of Our Fathers -- The Faces of Christ -- Say It -- The Technology of Paradise -- Work -- Clemente Stuff -- The Handmade Court -- In the Bakery -- Union Grades -- The Theoryof Stinks -- Useful Things -- Weakness -- Going Inside -- Subsidence, Mine Fire, Bypass, Golf -- Alcohol -- Night Vision -- Labored Breathing -- Plummeting -- Endings -- My Father Told Me -- The Piecework of Writing -- Cemeteries -- Looking Again: An Epilogue -- Acknowledgments.