I. Big bird died for your sins. Jailbreak of sparrows -- My father's practice book -- Look at this -- The monster in the lake -- Big bird died for your sins -- The lights that burn in the house of many rooms -- My mother sings an encore -- The bastard son of King Levinsky -- El Tiante spins like a stop sign in a hurricane -- A dream of drunks outsmarting me -- Better than stealing a necklace of bullets -- Moderation -- A busload of screaming children -- The critic's tongue did not sparkle with the diamond stickpin of wit -- II. The city wears a coat to bed. Guadalupe's first-year law school tumbao -- The city wears a coat to bed -- Your card is the king of rats -- He could sing, but he couldn't fly -- The janitor who swept where there was no dust -- Talking to the horses in the dark -- Gonzo -- Banquo's ghost in Paterson -- Isabela's red dress flutters away -- On Friday, we will wear blue -- III. Love song of the disembodied head in a jar. Love song of the moa -- Love song of the bat with vertigo -- Love song of the one-eyed fish -- Love song of the polar bear mascot at McCoy Stadium in Pawtucket, Rhode Island -- Love song of the atheist marionette -- Love song of the plátanos maduros --Love song of Frankenstein's insomniac monster -- Love song of the disembodied head in a jar -- I must be the steamship 'Morro Castle' -- My beloved the unbeliever -- My beloved the blasphemer causes a scuffle at the bar -- Award ceremony nightmare with Swedish meatballs -- IV. Wake up, Mario. Florencia, again and again -- Insult -- The fireflies of Belmont Avenue -- My Debs, my Eugene -- The Puerto Rican with the Bolshevik name -- The last words of Hurricane Hi -- Officer Mark Dial, who shot Eddie Irizarry, will be fired for insubordination -- Wake up, Mario, The faces we envision in the scrapbook of the dead -- The snake -- Breve pausa -- The iguanas skitter through the cemetery by the sea.