The World According to Whiskey: Poems

by House, Tom

• ISBN13: 9781588381323
• ISBN10: 1588381323
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-04-01
• Publisher: John F Blair Pub

Table of Contents

Grinning through the teeth
For the record	p. 11
Particulars	p. 13
A synopsis	p. 14
The backyard hoop	p. 16
Mary ann ashworth	p. 18
The awkward age	p. 20
Looking for his mama in a bar	p. 21
The city after	p. 23
Where it's gone	p. 25
Art?	p. 26
Virginia reels	p. 27
Roughing it	p. 28
& The mountain moved	p. 30
Genius	p. 32
Mother and son	p. 34
This year's cartoons	p. 36
Sunday the thoughts come from miles around	p. 38
Kicking off fan fair week	p. 40
Saturday morning after	p. 42
West durham sundays	p. 43
The auction block	p. 44
Delia	p. 45
The porno myth	p. 47
Linda's trick	p. 49
Drunk man stealing wife from himself	p. 51
The welder	p. 53
Pilgrim escapes	p. 55
The holy primitive	p. 57
Back room blood	p. 58
Laying it low	p. 60
Jewels	p. 61
The day the war began	p. 63
Taking a vacation	p. 65
The getaway	p. 67
A story from the new south	p. 69
A suitcase for her thoughts	p. 71
The marriage	p. 72
Heathen arms	p. 73
My penis	p. 75
To the bitter end	p. 76
Perspectives
Post modern graffiti	p. 81
The hank williams' memorial myth	p. 83
On the puppy dog news hour channel 4	p. 85
That tunnel america	p. 87
Going commercial	p. 89
Watching the cable christians--the gaudiest show in town	p. 91
Whose business is sin?	p. 93
Big dick dances	p. 95
All the raggedy-ass politics	p. 97
The change-your-attitude hour at the mississippi whiskers	p. 99
Marlboro mama	p. 101
What is it?	p. 102
Home	p. 103
The exhibitionist primps	p. 104
Bug game	p. 105
Blessed	p. 106
The performer grows older	p. 108
The bus home from nashville	p. 110
Politics & poetry	p. 112
The outlaw	p. 114
Spit-rap	p. 115
The world according to whiskey
The world according to whiskey	p. 119
Brooding	p. 120
The masochist's solution	p. 122
Jud dealt	p. 123
A ruthless coward and a mean drunk's what the judge said	p. 125
Her handicap fetish	p. 126
Cockroaches	p. 128
Suicide at the school	p. 129
Came to/wrote this	p. 131
Skybrain and his pornography	p. 132
Another psych major earns her spurs	p. 133
How it happened	p. 135
Cause of death: pneumonia	p. 137
And i never ever really liked much about nothing	p. 139
The garbo game	p. 141
Anima	p. 143
A modern romance	p. 145
Tequila's gambit	p. 147
Ms prissy	p. 148
Small sacrifice	p. 150
The bondage model	p. 152
The live peep-show	p. 154
Filling out the report	p. 156
I drop in the turf last friday night	p. 158
The bust	p. 160
The survival-reality game	p. 162
I make friends everywhere i go	p. 164
The outlaw legend/how it dies	p. 165
Connie learns the tricks	p. 169
I ain't retarded but...	p. 171
Cassie cops a feeling	p. 173
Scars so quiet	p. 175
Harry suggs	p. 176
The white man	p. 178
Politics & pornography	p. 179
This porno shop	p. 182
Ted bundy's mother	p. 183
Good kids	p. 184
Repast	p. 186
The boll weevil blues	p. 188
Acknowledgments	p. 189
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