From the Book - First edition.
Big Bird died for your sins. Jailbreak of sparrows ; My father's practice book ; Look at this ; The monster in the lake ; Big bird dies for your sins ; The lights that burn in the house of many rooms ; My mother sings an encore ; The bastard son of King Levinsky ; El tiante spins like a stop sign in a hurricane ; A dream of drunks outsmarting me ; Better than stealing a necklace of bullets ; Moderation ; A busload of screaming children ; The critic's tongue did not sparkle with the diamond stickpin of wit
The city wears a coat of red. Guadalupe's first-year law school tumbao ; The city wears a coat to bed ; Your card is the king of rats ; He could sing, but he couldn't fly ; The janitor who swept where there was no dust ; Talking to the horses in the dark ; Gonzo ; Banquo's ghost in paterson ; Isabela's red dress flutters away
Love song of the disembodied head in a jar. Love song of the Moa ; Love song of the bat with vertigo ; Love song of the one-eyed fish ; Love song of the polar bear mascot at McCoy Stadium in Pawtucket, Rhode Island ; Love song of the atheist marionette ; Love song of Platanos Maduros ; Love song of Frankenstein's insomniac monster ; Love song of the disembodied head in a jar ; I must be the steamship Morro Castle ; My beloved the unbeliever ; My beloved the blasphemer causes a scuffle at the bar ; Award ceremony nightmare with Swedish meatballs
Wake up, Mario. Florencia, again and again ; Insult ; The fireflies of Belmont avenue ; My Debs, My Eugene ; The Puerto Rican with the Bolshevik name ; The last words of Hurricane Hi ; Officer Mark Dial, who shot Eddie Irizarry, will be fired for insubordination ; Wake up, Mario ; The faces we envision in the scrapbook of the dead ; The snake ; Breve pausa ; The iguanas skitter through the cemetery by the sea.