Forgiveness Parade. Jeffrey McDaniel

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       for my brother Jon

      The Forgiveness Parade. Copyright ©1998 by Jeffrey McDaniel. All rights reserved. Published by Manic D Press. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles or reviews. For information, address Manic D Press, Box 410804, San Francisco, California 94141. www.manicdpress.com

      Cover design: Scott Idleman/BLINK

      ISBN-13: 978-0-916397-55-5

       Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

      McDaniel, Jeffrey, 1967-

      The forgiveness parade / Jeffrey McDaniel.

      p. cm.

      ISBN 0-916397-55-6

      I. Title.

      PS3563.C3537 F6 1998

      811’.54--ddc21

      98-25399

      CIP

      CONTENTS

       PART ONE

       Survivor’s Glee

       Hostile Proctor

       Where Babies Come From

       The First One

       Mannequin Complex

       Broken Toy Club

       Uncle Eggplant

       The Dollhouse

       The Obvious

       PART TWO

       Lineage

       The Bad Pilgrim Room

       Postcard From The Hurricane’s Eye

       Logic In The House Of Sawed-Off Telescopes

       The Billy In Me

       Play It Again, Salmonella

       Never Promise Someone A Poem

       Buying Crack At 3:00 A.M.

       Opposites Attack

       Siamese Opposites

       Cafe Tropical

       Stationary Earth

       The Farmer

       PART THREE

       The Quiet World

       The Secret

       Another Long Night In The Office Of Dreams

       The Caller

       Pornography For Eunuchs

       The Fiasco In Colorado

       The Jerk

       Hunting For Cherubs

       Winter Landscape With Manatee

       Letter To The Woman Who Stopped Writing Me Back

       The Wounded Chandelier

       Orbited By Kisses

       Caracas

       Absence Makes The Heart Grow Fondue

       PART FOUR

       The Water Is Drowning

       Leonard

       Fairy Tale In Reverse

       Great Humans

       Tour Guide To The Nation’s Capital

       Reno

       The Forgiveness Parade

       Poetry Nation

      Holding a dying creature during childhood will leave the offender with trembling hands for life.

       — from Tell the Bees... Belief, Knowledge, and Hypersymbolic Cognition, an exhibit at the Museum of Jurassic Technology

      PART ONE