Table of Contents
Waking the Witch
A Real Artist Makes Us Fall in Love with Ghosts 1
If You Ask Peter Gabriel to Astral Project 2
The Girls I Grew Up with Were Hard 3
Love Poem When We Run Out of Chickens 5
Halloween in the Anthropocene 7
Application to Model for Helmut Newton 9
How to Die in Your Dreams 11
You Must Wake Up 13
Witches Be Everywhere 15
A Coral Room
I Was Born in a Cloud 19
We Sing Mozart's Requiem in the Back of the Cruiser 20
Only Two Things Will Save Us Now 23
This Was Supposed to Be an Ode to Aqua Net 24
You See, I'm All Grown Up Now 26
Where to Stash Your Wax Lips 27
I Thought No One Would Ever Love Me 29
On the Dubious Honor of Being Prettiest 31
No Corroborating Evidence 33
It's Sadder If You're a Girl 34
Pull Out the Pin
50 Inciting Incidents 39
Sometimes a Guy Named Kevin Launches His Raft in Your River 41
How to Talk the Manic Away 42
Golden Age Drinking 44
Fun Factory 47
I Stand Outside This Woman's Work 49
I Wake Up in the Underworld of My Own Dirty Purse 52
How to Stop Raping the Muse 55
Wow
Come Up & Be a Kite 61
Tiffany Conditioner 62
If Your Glamour Is Real 64
White Dress vs. Red Dress 65
50 Other Words for Snow 67
If You Keep Hitting Those High Notes 69
Nature Is So Melodramatic, Always 70
If Our Art Must Outlive Us 71
Notes 75
Acknowledgments 81