Chances Are Few

by Thomas, Lorenzo

• ISBN13: 9780912652771
• ISBN10: 0912652772
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-05-01
• Publisher: Blue Wind Pr

Summary

New edition with the addition of 22 previously unpublished poems and a new introduction by the author.

Table of Contents

Introduction	vii
My Office	11	(6)
The Fine Clothes of Year Before Last
Inauguration	17	(1)
The Fine Clothes of Year Before Last	18	(2)
Farting as Decency	20	(1)
Sugar Hill	21	(1)
Security	22	(2)
Personal Anthropology	24	(1)
Broadway-Lafayette Espadrille	25	(4)
Euchre Bridge	29	(1)
Wheeling	30	(2)
Too Loud for Names	32	(1)
The Rule of Thumb	33	(9)
They Never Lose
The Leopard	42	(1)
They Never Lose	43	(6)
Too Much One Thing, Not Enough Somewhat Else	49	(3)
Choosing Metals	52	(1)
Guilt	53	(1)
Canzone	54	(1)
Sketches of Susan	55	(3)
Electricity of Blossoms	58	(2)
Hiccups after Leon Damas	60	(5)
Instructions for Your New Osiris	65	(2)
Shake Hands with Your Bets, Friend	67	(7)
The Marvelous Land of Indefinitions
The Marvelous Land of Indefinitions after Roberto MacKay	74	(4)
When Dukardo Boarded the Astro-Jet, He Already Done Seen the Movie after Dukardo Hinestrosa	78	(2)
Home X XI	80	(1)
MMDCCXIII 1/2	81	(1)
An Excerpt from Big House Movies	82	(4)
Screen Test	86	(11)
Class Action	97	(10)
Hat Red	107	(4)
Clear Channel	111	(6)
Liquid City
Salt	117	(1)
Discovering America Again	118	(3)
Happy New Year	121	(1)
Summer Stock	122	(1)
Art For Nothing	123	(1)
Things Could Be Worse	124	(5)
The Gods' Own Privilege	129	(4)
The Heroin of My Youth	133	(1)
Souvenir Of The Manassah Ball	134	(2)
Liquid City	136