Don't Say Anything About My Mom (The Book, That Is) My Mother Wrote a Book, or A Memoir of Forgiveness, Stupidity, and the Beauty of Motherhood. My Mother Does Not Know I'm Using a Couch to Beat Herself to Death I Know I Have the Right to Die, but My Mom Has the Right to Lie My Masturbating Unborn Twin In a Minor Key So You've Decided to Kill Yourself What's the Difference Between a Knife and a Gun? The Difference Between Being Dead and Being Purgatory A Poem for No One: How to Become a Ghost in a Weekend (For Adults Only) A Letter from Your Ex-Girlfriend to Your Ex-Wife A Few Things I Know About Suicide A Poem for Your Ex-Wife What I Think About Life A Little Too Much To a Baby Gurgling in Your Womb I Had a Child, But He Died on the Way Out I Had a Son... But He Didn't Take After Me at All I Am Not My Mother's Keeper A Mother's Refusal of Her Daughter's Suicide Letter My Father's Last Word It's an Open-and-Shut Case I'm Here Because I'm Exhausted, Like All Parents The Mother of My Child, My Mom, My Womb, the Vagina that Birthed My Babies, My Mother My Best Friends Who Are Still Living I Lost My Daughter to Heroin A Poem for My Dead Friend An Open Letter to My Husband: A History of Loneliness The Perfect Parent I Hate What She Did for Me I Love What She Did to Me, Too An Old Woman, A Broken Toy If God Were Born, What Would He Look Like? If You Can Imagine It, You Can Make It: A Poem to Get Yourself Through Work All Weekend I Am the Mom from Outer Space I Can't Even Bring Myself to Write This Poem The Truth About Motherhood I Am Unworthy of Being a Mom I Never Forgot How Small You Were, My Angel, Because You Were Always Very Small A Death Poem: A Poem for Dying What Children Think about Suicide How I Almost Killed My Wife A Poem for the Mother of My Daughter, Who Was Almost Killed My Mother Is Unkind, but I Am Not in Her Power My Mother Is Bitter and Hates My Father My Father Is the Only Parent I Have Seen in a Real Fight I Cannot Leave You Because Your Husband Does Not Work What Parents Think About You Being Gay My Father Has Slept with Our Friend, Who Is Only Nineteen I Would Like to Be Invited to My Father's Funeral A Poem for the Child I Will Never Have Our Best Friends Are Not Our Parents My Son Will Never Go to War The Best Children's Poetry Ever My Kid Hates Me There Are No Fucks Left to Give Love Lessons for My Daughter Talking About Sex at a Dinner Party: A Guide to Parenting While You're In Therapy A Poem for my Son, Who Was Born Twice How to Talk to My Kids About Sex and Drugs: A Parenting Manual If It's Not One Kind of Cancer, It's Another I Love My Daughter, but I Would Rather My Son Be Alive How to Talk to Your Parents About Their Death Trying to Convince My Mom to Have an Open Casket What Children Think About Suicide I Am Not My Parents' Keeper My Life as a Clone How to Live with Parents Who Are Completely Unhappy with You Love, I Hope You Fall in Love, So I Can Hurt You Even More Biological Mother and Step-Mother, What a Mess Dear Mother, I Always Want to Have Sex with You The Parent I Hate and How to Fight Back A Poem for Parents: A Very Short Guide to Understanding Your Children My Mother's a Jerk I Cannot Believe My Parents Fell in Love My Son's Reactions to My Father's Cancer Diagnosis My Favorite Things Are Nausea and Depression How to Raise a Narcissist, In One Letter How to Raise a Sociopath, Part Two When They Are Old Enough to Understand Why You Don't Get Back Together with Their Father, Tell Them Everything How to Raise an Abusive Parent, in Three Sentences or Less How to Raise a Drug Addict, in Four or Five Lines Who Is My Father? Who Is My Mother? My Mother, Who Gave Birth to My Sister A Poem for My Father How to Tell Your Parents They Are Dying, in One Brief Moment, Which Could Be Any Moment (But Is Likely to Be Their Last) Why Are You Trying to Make Me Have an Orgasm? A Poem for the Man I Love How to Be Alone and Be Free My Husband Is Not My Life I Love My Husband, but I Still Want to Kill Him Sometimes My Father Has an Insatiable Sexual Appetite I Really Hate It When My Daughter Does Not Like My New Boyfriend My Child Does Not Like His Best Friend My Child Has Cried a Lot and No One Gives a Shit A Poem for You Walking by Your Daughter's Bedroom at Night My Son Told Me That He Really Loves Me My Son Will Marry a Woman I Will Hate Forever A Poem for My Wife A Mother's Refusal of Her Daughter's Suicide Letter I'm Pregnant With My Daughter's Twin I'm My Mother's Keeper Why I Am Afraid of Dogs My Son Wants to Kill My Father (He's Not Crazy, He's Not Insane, and He Is Not Insane) I Hate My Son So Much My Husband Won't Touch Me Since He Learned I'm Not Saved My Boyfriend Hates My Body I Hate My Sister and She Doesn't Know It A Poem for My Younger Sister, Who Is Wanting to Leave Her Boyfriend (And I Don't Understand Why) How to Get a Job Without Having to Fake Your Death If You Don't Like Your Family, Get The Fuck Out Love: A Love Poem Death: A Love Poem A Poem About Love One Thing I Would Do Differently My Sister Doesn't Have Enough Self-Respect What Happens When Your Love Interest Lies to You My Mother Asks My Boyfriend for a Loan My Mom Will Never Stop Calling My Girlfriend a Lesbian Whore My Son's Friend Tried to Murder My Daughter How to Be Married to a Woman You Know is Cheating on You This Is What It's Like When Your Sex Life Is Invisible to Your Partner The Most Fun You Can Have in Bed: A Love Poem I Am Married to My Son's Girlfriend (And I Can't Believe It) My Son Wants to Kill His Father (He's Not Crazy, He's Not Insane, and He Is Not Insane) The Man I've Been Married to for Thirty-Seven Years Has Always Been a Lying, Cheating, Filthy Man My Boyfriend is Taking Viagra and I Really Hate Him If You Tell Your Friend That You Have Unprotected Sex with Her Husband, He Will Think You Are a Mistress, Too My Boyfriend Has Had Sex with a Virgin, But He Doesn't Know It I Know That I Could Fix My Father's Problems, If I Knew What They Were I Lost My Mother to Suicide, My Father to Alcoholism, and My Sister to an Eating Disorder I Hate Him I Have a Bad Relationship with My Mother-in-Law and My Husband Is Being Reassured By Her How to Treat My Husband Like a Human Being When