RODEO IN REVERSE
Copyright © 2018 Lindsey Alexander
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Cover image: Billy Renkl
Cover / book design: Kate McMullen
Author photo: Emily Brewer, Tntypes
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Alexander, Lindsey, 1988—author.
Title: Rodeo in reverse : poems / Lindsey Alexander.
Description: Spartanburg SC : Hub City Press, [2018]
Includes bibliographical references.
Identifiers: LCCN 2018005343 (print)
LCCN 2017061505 (ebook) | ISBN 9781938235412
(ebook) | ISBN 9781938235405 (pbk.)
Classification: LCC PS3601.L35396 (print)
LCC PS3601.L35396 A6 2018 (ebook)
DDC 811/.6—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018005343
This project is supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts.
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CONTENTS
Reflection on First Season of a Marriage
Sleepless in Indiana, I Contemplate the Age-Old Arts
What If Through a Window, Those Ones?
Self-Portrait with Golden Ammo
Good Me Attempts to Neutralize, Rescue, or Otherwise Stifle Bad Me
Honest Abe Gets Mad Jealous of the Pretty, Successful Girl from My High School
Scrap of Mail Found Near Tracks of Overland Route
This Bone Shall Dry Up and Hope Shall Be Lost
Guilty and Reckless, I Try to Meet the Tornado Head On
Watching Sonny and Cher Reunite on Late Night With David Letterman While Consoling Chaz Bono, 1987
On the King Bridge in Frankfort, Kentucky
Spaghetti Western in Which Bad Me Challenges Good Me to a Duel
Sundays from 11 to Noon Exist Forever into Eternity
After Nature, Every Last Thing
I Said I Saw an Ostrich Bury Its Head in the Sand at the Zoo, But