The Unreasonable Slug

In the tradition of Ambrose Bierce, Matt Cook's third volume of thoroughly American stand-up poetry.

Matt Cook is the author of In the Small of My Backyard and Eavesdrop Soup. His work has been featured on NPR's Fresh Air and The Writer's Almanac.

Rest assured	p. 15
The modernist bowling alley	p. 16
The city feels different	p. 17
The hands of boiled wieners	p. 18
Back together again	p. 19
Asking someone	p. 20
A convincing swan	p. 21
Winslow	p. 22
Revolting conditions	p. 23
The poet's handshake	p. 24
So anti war	p. 25
Everybody and their mother	p. 29
More ordinary	p. 30
Bogged down	p. 31
The white guy	p. 32
The woman next door	p. 33
Serenity	p. 34
Probably	p. 35
Recyclables	p. 36
Mormon underwear	p. 37
Better than something	p. 38
Something in common	p. 39
The paper bag	p. 40
To count the cars or whatever	p. 41
Some days	p. 42
The mediocre lunch	p. 43
Some number of wrongs	p. 47
Common sense	p. 48
Abstract bicycle	p. 49
Fake snow	p. 50
Cannellini beans	p. 51
Macaroni	p. 52
Tom will not remind you of John	p. 53
China readies itself for snow with tough talk	p. 54
True story	p. 55
The mother of the poet	p. 56
The comet	p. 57
Experiment	p. 58
Duck decoys	p. 59
The horizon	p. 60
Not everything is funny	p. 61
The way it used to sound	p. 62
By watching	p. 63
The Davenport flood	p. 67
A professor I know	p. 68
An aluminum houseboat in the sky	p. 69
Amtrak	p. 70
Factors	p. 71
When the drunk man speaks loudly	p. 72
Your obsolete passion	p. 73
It might bring happiness	p. 74
It's possible	p. 75
The ghost of your mom	p. 76
The unapproachable butcher	p. 77
He thought he saw a bug	p. 78
God poem	p. 79
The strong silent man	p. 80
Handshakes	p. 81
Those days are gone now	p. 82
Funny grimaces	p. 84
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