Table of Contents
Dear Sam, This Isn't a Suicide Note 1
Palinopsia Song or Ode to Some Fucking Bird 5
Ode to Prednisone 7
Crohn's Song 8
Symptoms Include a Compulsive Desire to be Understood 10
Poem for a Broken Bone 11
Election Night in the Ward 13
Ode to Zopiclone 16
To My Friends Who Did Not Visit Me in the Mental Hospital 18
Circular Labyrinth 23
The Chestnut Tree Cafe 26
Self-Parenting 28
Noonday Yahweh 30
Song for a Colonoscopy 32
The Spaz 34
To a Child Whose Mother Has Not Yet Died 35
Song to the Suicides 37
Note 38
Metamorphosis 40
Jumbo Elegy 41
God as We Understood Him 43
On Missing a Train Stop 45
Songs from an Emergency Room 47
Nearly 50% of Toronto Islands underwater after recent deluge of rain: City 49
In Praise of Losing Things 52
Ode to Remicade 54
Infusion Song 55
And Then Job Answered God from inside the 56
Whirlwind They Were Both Caught inside of Job's Girlfriend 59
Lamotrigine Song 62
Re: hey, and i might have cancer 64
Harold and Maude Revisited 66
Wanting to Not Want to Die 69
My Last Depression 70
Notes 73
Acknowledgements 75