Front Cover -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- One -- Damage -- The Soldier Inside the Horse -- Disappearer -- Customer Lounge -- Alzheimer's -- The Grandfather -- The Taxicab Incident -- According to One Statistic -- The Goldfish -- Another Dimension -- Always Danger -- Two -- Composition in Red -- Composition in Black -- Humiliating the Tyrants -- At the Courthouse -- Jury Duty -- Bullet -- Chess Match Ends in Fight -- Three -- Early Lesson -- Vons Parking Lot, Late October -- Ghost Brother -- Driving Toward the Sun -- A Story to Tell -- The Quiet Minutes -- The Dinner Party -- Night -- The Gondolier -- How to Commit Adultery -- Leaving the Nurse -- Four -- Portrait of My Father Slapping His Ear -- What a Little Charisma Can Do -- Man on an Island -- Topiary -- The Sad Punk -- Balcony Talk with Cigars -- Aim -- Dumbest -- Donut Shop -- The Eyes -- Five -- Fontanelle -- Episode -- Subzero -- The Circus Octopus -- Splitmind -- Appointment -- Self-Portrait with Back Turned -- A Brief History of Antidepressants -- Other Books in the Crab Orchard Series in Poetry -- Back Cover.