Summary

A drawing of the author's name and “Dog Street” labeled on a brick wall introduces Part IV, “Get Back.” This is followed by a drawing of four Indian men designed to look like the cover of the Beatles' album Please Please Me, and the epigraph “This is where / I once / belonged” (233).

In “Peel This Skin,” Gansworth compares human skin to an apple's skin, then returns to the narration of his memories. He is 24 and attending college, where he has a close friend named Wendy. Gansworth and Wendy often climb inside a loud heating vent on campus and tell their secrets to one another. There is one secret he has told her that he does not tell others. He agrees to model for another friend who is making a sculpture of a man with wings for...