Acknowledgments . Preface, Laura Vrana . Introduction, Aldon Lynn Nielsen . Poems 1963-2005 . EARLY CRIMES 1963-1966 . "The way Egyptians used to sit" . The Unnatural Life . One Never Knows, Do One . Negritude . Domestic Horror
Toil . Embarkation for Cythera . The Blond Sinner . Economics . How Can I Prove I Am Not Modigliani . Great Love Duets . Engagement . The Convention . Song . DRACULA . Dracula . THE BATHERS . Onion Bucket . Twelve Gates . Other Worlds . I Just Want To Reach Out And Bite You Baby . The Bathers . The Lion Is The Lamb . Anubis . FIT MUSIC . Fit Music: California Songs, 1970 . SLUM DAYS AFTER THE WAR . Wonders . Enlightenment . Survivors . Heavenly Bodies . Faith . The Heroin Of My Youth . Grandpa's Spells . Historiography . [Liner Notes] . Bother Me . Sea of Chance (A Sailor Song) . Sugar Hill . Fly Society . To Speak of Woe That Is In Marrakesh . Better Physics . While Madness Reigns . Serpent Guerillas . Work Song . Framing The Sunrise . Fatiha . EUPHEMYSTICISM . A Song For The Banana Tree Sleeping In My Yard . Cosmic Communion . Blues Cadet . Paul Laurence Dunbar Views The Sword Of Toussaint L'Ouverture, Chicago Exposition 1893 . Euphemysticism . Suicide Administration . Ancient Habits Or Customs . Mouthology . Hurricane Doris . Evry Mae . Sprucing Spring Up On Larkin Street . Another Poem In English . JAMBALAYA . Rhumba Negro . False Alarm . R & B . The Architecture of Devotion . Saint . Witches . High Hell Jesus . Collective Poems . Spiritual . House of Red Lights . Sounds of Joy . They'll Be Back . Le Zodico Ne Pas Seul . Jubilee . SOUND SCIENCE . A Native Guide . Pyramids . The New Borning . More Than Nothing . The Persuader . A Judge . Duds . My Calling . The Offering . Speak Low . Low Speech . Electricity On Earth . Arc In The Dark . Magnetism . The Universe . There's A Lot Of Wisdom Here . One More Chance . What I Would Prefer . We Are Beautiful African People . Protection . Look What You Done For Me . Possession . Obedience . Oil of Gladness . CHANCES ARE FEW . My Office . Inauguration . The Fine Clothes Of Year Before Last . Farting As Decency . Sugar Hill . Security . Personal Anthropology . Broadway-Lafayette . Espadrille . Euchre Bridge . Wheeling . Too Loud For Names . The Rule Of Thumb . The Leopard . They Never Lose . Too Much One Thing, Not Enough Somewhat Else . Choosing Metals . Guilt . Canzone . Sketches of Susan . Electricity Of Blossoms . Hiccups after Leon Damas . Instructions For Your New Osiris . Shake Hands With Your Bets, Friend . The Marvelous Land Of Indefinitions . When Dukardo Boarded The Astro-Jet, He Already Done Seen The Movie . Home XXI . MMDCCXIII 2 . An Excerpt From Big House Movies . Screen Test . Class Action . Hat Red . Clear Channel . Salt . Discovering America Again . Happy New Year . Summer Stock . Art For Nothing . Things Could Be Worse . The Gods' Own Privilege . Souvenir Of The Manassah Ball . Liquid City . DANCING ON MAIN STREET . Mister Anderson . The Kite And The Hawk . South St. Blues . Please, Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood . When If The Big Bands Come Back . Guerilla Girls . Displacement . Sentiment . Suburban Saturdays . Mourning Raga . The Audie Murphy Game . Destruction Of The Seated Man . Last Call . Excitation . Skunk Insulation . Grudge Match . Lifelong Learning . Otis . Spirits You All . Journey Of 1,000 Li . Tirade . Poem In Lieu Of The Marriage Of Andrew Zolem . The Sadness Of Space Exploration . Quiet Riot . Dumb Luck . The New South . Lights Out . No, Don't Get Up . The Failure Of Alchemy . Working-Class Hero . The Gambler . Knight To Queen's Pawn . An Old Hand . Pornography = Exploitation Of Men . Now You Can Worry . L'Argent . Thinking In Words . Like A Tree . Sightseeing In East Texas . Psalm . Back In The Day . Whale Song . Songs Without Shadows . The Marks Are Waiting . Dirge For Amadou Diallo . An Afternoon With Dr. Blumenbach . Dangerous Doubts . Lustre . Cameo In Sudden Light . Country Song . Multicultural . Low Rider . An Even-Tempered Girl Holds Her Breath . She Lived To Be 100 . A Kind Of Accounting . Cute Girl With A Toy Monkey . Flash Point . God Sends Love Disguised As Ordinary People . Magnetic Charms . Equinox . Back-Ordered Tears . ADDITIONAL POEMS . The Black Canaries Weep Over Gomorrha . South Afrika . A Tale of Two Cities . Grass . West . Political Science . Enuresis . Gilbert and Sullivan . The Conscience of Cole Porter . The Pornography . Linear Variation . Nichomachean Ethics . Chorus from an Unwritten Greek Play . The Color Section . The Judgment of Paris . The Fall of Paris . Robert Williams, Exiled in Cuba . Sonnet . Life on the Farm . Project Blues . Secrets of the Samba . Modern Plumbing Illustrated . The Subway Witnesses . Two One-Act Plays . Selena . From The Working Days . The Midnight Sun . Good Housekeeping . Five Empty Reams . Millenarian Joys Walking Vicksburg Blues . A Mingus Memory . Hollandaise Salsa . Diplomacy . Go to Bed Anyway . Nowhere Near Albuquerque . An Education . Downtown Boom . Ailerons & Elevators . An Arc Still Open . STATEMENTS . Statement for Jambalaya, 1975 . Statement for None of the Above, 1976 . Introduction to Chances Are Few, second edition, 2003

Lorenzo Thomas
edited by Aldon Lynn Nielsen and Laura Vrana