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• [iv] •  Where Robot Mice and Robot Men Run Round in Robot Towns (frontispiece) • interior artwork by uncredited
• xi • Prologue • poem by Ray Bradbury
• 3 • Byzantium I Come Not From • poem by Ray Bradbury
• 6 •
  What I Do Is Me—For That I Came^?What I Do Is Me-For That I Came
  • poem by Ray Bradbury
• 8 • I Am the Residue of All My Daughters' Lives • poem by Ray Bradbury
• 10 • We March Back to Olympus • poem by Ray Bradbury
• 12 • Ghost at the Window, Hive on the Hearth • poem by Ray Bradbury
• 13 • Boy Pope Behold! Dog Bishop See! • poem by Ray Bradbury
• 16 • I Have a Brother, Mostly Dead • poem by Ray Bradbury
• 18 • Why Viking Lander, Why the Planet Mars? • poem by Ray Bradbury
• 20 • We Have Our Arts So We Won't Die of Truth • poem by Ray Bradbury
• 22 • I Die, So Dies the World • poem by Ray Bradbury
• 23 • My Love, She Weeps at Many Things • poem by Ray Bradbury
• 25 • Death as a Conversation Piece • poem by Ray Bradbury
• 26 • Remembrance II • poem by Ray Bradbury
• 29 •
  J.C.—Summer '28^?J.C.-Summer '28
  • poem by Ray Bradbury
• 31 • The Young Galileo Speaks • (1976) • poem by Ray Bradbury
• 32 • The Beast Atop the Building, the Tiger on the Stairs • poem by Ray Bradbury
• 35 • Why Didn't Someone Tell Me About Crying in the Shower? • poem by Ray Bradbury
• 38 • Somewhere a Band Is Playing • poem by Ray Bradbury
• 41 • The Nefertiti-Tut Express • poem by Ray Bradbury
• 44 • Telephone Friends, in Far Places • poem by Ray Bradbury
• 46 • Death for Dinner, Doom for Lunch • poem by Ray Bradbury
• 47 • Out of Dickinson by Poe, or The Only Begotten Son of Emily and Edgar • (1976) • poem by Ray Bradbury
• 48 • Lo, the Ghost of Our Least Favorite Uncle • poem by Ray Bradbury
• 51 • That Son of Richard III • poem by Ray Bradbury
• 57 • A Poem with a Note: All England Empty, the People Flown • poem by Ray Bradbury
• 64 • The Syncopated Hunchbacked Man • poem by Ray Bradbury
• 65 • If Man Is Dead, Then God Is Slain • poem by Ray Bradbury
• 68 • Thoughts on Visiting the Main Rocket Assembly Building at Cape Canaveral for the First Time • poem by Ray Bradbury
• 72 • Their Names in Dust, Their Dates in Grass • poem by Ray Bradbury
• 75 • Long Thoughts on Best-Sellers by Worst People • poem by Ray Bradbury