The Science of Broken People by Todd Heldt

The Science of Broken People
TABLE OF CONTENTS

	Saying Grace Among the Rocks		5
	Crossing Rivers		7
	Advice to Hitchhikers		8
	My friend the poet		9
	One Day Looking		10
	The Crop Duster's Epistle to the Earthbound		11
	Story at the East St. Louis Bus Station		12
	Baseball with the Dead		13
	On Stabbing a Man and Being a Good Listener		14
	Song		15
	Surroundings		16
	Bottle and Song		17
	Homecoming		18
	To Sleep Alone		19
	I Total Another Car Just Before My Birthday		20
	The Frog Finds His Way Home in the Damp, Damp World		21
	The Woman Above Me		22
	In the Presence of Things Large and Small		23
	After a Long Illness		25
	Procession		26
	Meeting the Witnesses		27
	In Defense of Darkness		28
	Word Problems		29
	Solstice		31
	Hopes		33
	Elegy at a South-Side El Stop		34
	Sex Scene in a Subway		35
	What if the World Ends Tomorrow?		36
	What Might Catch Your Eye		37
	After the Orange Alert		38
	Walking in Wartime America		39
	Untangling the Trainwreck		40
	Things You Can't Expect		41