Where Robot Mice And Robot Men Run Round In Robot Towns

Where Robot Mice And Robot Men Run Round In Robot Towns
Ray Douglas Bradbury

One of Ray Bradbury’s classic poetry collections, available in ebook for the first time.Ray Bradbury writes of childhood, Melville, and God as well as space launchings and other-world things in this second collection of his poems.

WHERE ROBOT MICE AND ROBOT MEN

RUN ROUND IN ROBOT TOWNS

Ray Bradbury

Copyright (#ulink_58bd5de4-c255-51fc-8552-0670cdc58750)

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Ebook Edition © JULY 2014 ISBN: 9780007539956

Version: 2014–07–18

Dedication (#ulink_448ff507-0fab-5575-9d78-2e36879bfc98)

Again for Marguerite/Maggie—because of thirty-two years

Table of Contents

Cover (#u25bfcc57-377e-57f4-94a1-73cf1ac1e020)

Title Page (#u7ebd0f87-5141-5a35-bb62-db94ae7a1c18)

Copyright (#ulink_a12bad37-dba9-5de4-be52-19a0ec2c7555)

Dedication (#ulink_80cf7368-4cc6-573d-b985-d94ae95295fb)

Prologue (#ulink_99c483a0-d64a-5871-8368-97e0a6fc0e13)

Byzantium I Come Not From (#ulink_46787ebc-0260-5348-9f79-ca4e3720c359)

What I Do Is Me—For That I Came (#ulink_287bc0cd-6504-5212-a1dc-5c1df95ad381)

I Am the Residue of All My Daughters’ Lives (#ulink_b52e1c85-b03c-5461-943e-670e23dcd0c0)

We March Back to Olympus (#ulink_a066cf8c-7fd9-53eb-9064-29eda0070063)

Ghost at the Window, Hive on the Hearth (#ulink_37f64bf7-69f1-569b-b842-08ee0a9359d7)

Boy Pope Behold! Dog Bishop See! (#ulink_53b766f7-7ae3-5169-85d0-a01050cf8138)

I Have a Brother, Mostly Dead (#litres_trial_promo)

Why Viking Lander, Why the Planet Mars? (#litres_trial_promo)

We Have Our Arts so We Won’t Die of Truth (#litres_trial_promo)

I Die, so Dies the World (#litres_trial_promo)

My Love, She Weeps at Many Things (#litres_trial_promo)

Death as a Conversation Piece (#litres_trial_promo)

Remembrance II (#litres_trial_promo)

J.C.—Summer '28 (#litres_trial_promo)

The Young Galileo Speaks (#litres_trial_promo)

The Beast Atop the Building, the Tiger on the Stairs (#litres_trial_promo)

Why Didn’t Someone Tell Me About Crying in the Shower? (#litres_trial_promo)

Somewhere a Band Is Playing (#litres_trial_promo)

The Nefertiti – Tut Express (#litres_trial_promo)

Telephone Friends, in Far Places (#litres_trial_promo)

Death for Dinner, Doom for Lunch (#litres_trial_promo)

Out of Dickinson by Poe, or The Only Begotten Son of Emily and Edgar (#litres_trial_promo)

Lo, the Ghost of Our Least Favorite Uncle (#litres_trial_promo)