Popular Longing. Natalie Shapero

      

      Popular Longing

      NATALIE SHAPERO

      COPPER CANYON

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      This e-book edition was created through a special grant provided by the Paul G. Allen Family Foundation.

      for Meg Shevenock

      Contents

       Title Page

       Note to Reader

       Man at His Bath

       My Hair Is My Thing

       The Suggested Face for Sorry

       Lying Is Getting

       Five by Seven

       California

       A Space to Train and Exit

       Magpie

       Tea

       Have at It

       Tomatoes Ten Ways

       They Said It Couldn’t Be Done

       It for Me

       Sunshower

       Green

       Totally under the Water

       Long Wedding

       The Greatest Two Minutes in Sports

       You Missed a Spot

       Weekend

       Stoop

       Flowers Would Have Killed You

       The Lone Acceptable Application of Daylight

       Say It to My Face

       Good Share

       It Used to Be We Had to Go to War

       During the Strife, My Sisters

       And Also with You

       Good Description

       The Beach

       Don’t Spend It All in One Place

       Other Things, If Not More Urgent Things

       Some Toxin

       Fake Sick

       Home, Followed by Tall Buildings

       And Stay Out

       Ohio on TV

       Fifty

       Pennsylvania

       About the Author

       Also by Natalie Shapero

       Acknowledgments

       Copyright

       Special Thanks

      POPULAR

      LONGING

       Man at His Bath

      Six years ago, the big museum sold eight famous paintings

      to purchase, for unspecified millions,

      Gustave Caillebotte’s MAN AT HIS