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Contents

  Title Page

  Note to Reader

  Dedication

1  Dollar Dollar Bill

2  Alamo Theory

3  Josh II: The Return of Josh

4  Vince Neil Meets Josh in a Chinese Restaurant in Malibu (after Ezra Pound)

5  Where the I Comes From

6  If Not Princess, Then Warden

7  Pensées of the Sucker MC

8  The Last Critique

9  Here Are Some Problems I Have with Your Wife

10  Vince Neil Accompanies Josh to Luncheon with Scholars, Poets, and Others — Gets Cell Phone Number of Grad Student Sitting at Far End of Table — Orders Cheeseburger, No Tomato — Borrows Josh’s Cell Phone — Calls Grad Student Sitting at Far End of Table

11  PSA

12  American History

13  Your Prime Minister Speaks

14  One Night in His Hotel Room, Vince Neil Reads Aloud His “Open Letter to the Men and Women of Malibu, Who May No Longer Love Me as They Have,” a Nice Bit of Writing about Which Josh Offers Very Little in the Way of Criticism

15  The Films of Tony Scott

16  We Will Begin by Placing You in This Bag

17  Blue Safari

18  Penultimate Letter to Your Wife

19  Sci-Fi Violence

20  While Josh Sleeps, Vince Neil Recites His “Love Song for Flight Attendant on Continental Express 1147, to Austin, Texas”

21  Alamo Theory II

22  Here Are Some Problems I Have with Your Wife

23  What It’s Like Outside

24  Notes Toward an Imperial Poetry

25  One Shies at the Prospect of Raising Yet Another Defense of Cannibalism

26  One Day, Alone on the Houseboat, Vince Neil Changes the Name of Everyone He Has Known, Knows, or Is Like to Know — Male and Female — to James

27  Yep, I Said Camel

28  The Record

29  The Creature

30  Vince Neil’s Report to the Malibu City Chamber of Commerce, in Which He Refuses, and Finally Agrees, to Make a Journey to the Underworld to Visit with the Known and Unknown Dead

31  Complaint

32  Alamo Theory III

33  Hidden Lake

34  Superwhite

35  Vince Neil’s Apologia Pro Vita Sua, as Transcribed by Josh, in a Crowded Hotel Bar One Afternoon, Being a Poem Spoken in the Future, During the Upcoming AWP Conference of 2018, in Tampa, Florida

  Acknowledgments

  About the Author

  Books by Josh Bell

  Copyright

  Special Thanks