Part 1 Insomniac City
Insomniac City 2
Sleep: Loss 7
Black Crow 13
O and I 21
On Becoming a New Yorker 24
Subway Lifer 29
The Summer Michael Jackson Died 36
A Fisherman on the Subway 47
A Poem Written on the Stars 58
The Moving Man 67
For the Skateboarders 80
Part II On Being Not Dead
The Thank-You Man 89
The Same Taxi Twice 104
The Weeping Man 117
On Being Not Dead 129
On a Typewriter 132
At the Skateboard Park 134
A Woman Who Knew Her Way 146
Driving a Supermodel 156
Lessons from the Smoke Shop 164
A Year in Trees 180
On Father's Day 186
Part III How New York Breaks Your Heart
My Afternoon with Ilona 197
His Name Is Raheem 213
A Monet of One's Own 228
But 239
Everything That I Don't Have 255
A Pencil Sharpener 266
Home 286
Postscript 289
Acknowledgments 293