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The poems in this collection mix English and Spanish while tracing the ?kool logic? of culture in transit. Scuttling from free verse and limericks to d?cimas and terza rima, the poet is our guide on a transcultural tour through downtowns, suburbs, stockyards, shantytowns, power lunches, HMOs, open mics, and open sores. Fusing pop riffs, Beat whimsy, Nuyorican punch lines, and modernist deadpan, the poet in these pages is also the comedian, the visionary, the j?baro, the agitator, the theorist, the lounge singer, the slacker ? Puerto Rican poet and performer Urayo?n Noel has coined a new sort of pop artifact: a logic primer with laugh track, a tainted culture sampler, an urban ready-made of forms and voices designed to confound and delight the enlightened masses.

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• Nursing Home Injuries(p. 1)
• Pills and Booze (the slacker song)(p. 3)
• Candy & Co(p. 5)
• Six Flags over Brooklyn(p. 7)
• Metal pesado 1/Heavy Metal 1(p. 14)
• Forced Busing(p. 15)
• LINO: Employee of the Month(p. 17)
• At the Palo Alto Burger King(p. 19)
• En los suburbios lejanos/In the Faraway Suburbs(p. 20)
• Dreaming(p. 30)
• Sour Grapes(p. 31)
• Lost and Found in Taksim Square(p. 34)
• Magnets(p. 36)
• The Pragmatist(p. 37)
• Herald Square, 6 PM(p. 39)
• Grand Mal(p. 40)
• Word Is Saving Agneta(p. 41)
• Quicksand(p. 45)
• Liquidacion/Clearance(p. 46)
• A Fence(p. 51)
• Kool Logic/La logica kool(p. 52)
• Still Life(p. 59)
• Doble tanda/Double Feature(p. 60)
• Barrio Speedwagon Blues(p. 62)
• Next Exit(p. 65)
• Vacant Blues(p. 66)
• Greetings from the Upper West Side of My Burning Brain(p. 67)
• El hombre lobo(p. 69)
• Death and Taxes(p. 70)
• Spic Tracts(p. 71)
• Spraycan(p. 75)
• The Wayside Story(p. 76)