This dolorous document is the happy result of a Poetry Project workshop with erica kaufman called Poem as Process, Procedure, Prosthesis. Sections “i” are a series of calibrated excisions from Sigmund Freud’s 1915 essay, “Mourning and Melancholia.” Sections “ii” are quotes from and responses to essays on that famous text. Sections “iii” are from “How I Lose My Wallet,” composed in The Writers Room in the East Village in 2007.