The Haunted Computer and the Android Pope

The Haunted Computer and the Android Pope
Ray Douglas Bradbury

One of Ray Bradbury’s classic poetry collections, available in ebook for the first time.A poetry collection from a master of fantasy celebrates the familiar and unusual in verses dealing with subjects from Ty Cobb to dinosaurs and strawberry shortcake to the Vatican.It includes many of Bradbury's best verses, including "They Have Not Seen the Stars," "This Attic Where the Meadow Greens," "There Are No Ghosts in Catholic Spain," "Farewell Summer," "Once the Years Were Numerous and the Funerals Few," "Doing Is Being, "We Are The Reliquaries of Lost Time," and others.

THE HAUNTED COMPUTER

AND THE ANDROID POPE

Ray Bradbury

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Ebook Edition © JULY 2014 ISBN: 9780007539918

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Dedication (#ulink_c74b6f6b-ca76-5344-b32b-f184e3aae2a4)

With love for my granddaughter, Julia, whose face promises me immortality

Table of Contents

Cover (#u5bc5e41d-47e1-51bb-a7d9-c05353a97bbb)

Title Page (#ufe1c2956-b889-57d7-afb3-8181a8fd2321)

Copyright (#ulink_9319935b-8818-5cee-85ec-5ba44176afb6)

Dedication (#ulink_0cbaaf4e-1b46-5100-bf05-941d9f6ad3e0)

The Haunted Computer and the Android Pope (#ulink_13d02fa8-20a7-52a6-afee-c3c6592404ee)

Go Not with Ruins in Your Mind (#ulink_8606bf2b-fa4c-5a4a-9755-d34b1eba1f57)

Poem from a Train Window (#ulink_829fd5eb-168d-5969-bba9-e7a556d9aa32)

Nor Is the Aim of Man to Stay Beneath a Stone (#ulink_0a0b4cad-c843-532d-a90b-dc26bd0fa56a)

Joy Is the Grace We Say to God (#ulink_813991cf-e647-5ac9-b78b-edf2cacb2bed)

They Have Not Seen the Stars (#ulink_e958e773-289c-5da2-bf6e-885528214fc6)

This Attic Where the Meadow Greens (#ulink_b92b74f3-3f83-5277-aac1-f0b8ee54f24c)

Abandon in Place (#ulink_f3c6ade0-543d-5dc1-80f6-bd7c4d93a348)

The Great Man Speaks (#ulink_5030fa8b-7c48-5b0a-a0a4-78b65d2e939f)

Shakespeare the Father, Freud the Son (#litres_trial_promo)

A Miracle of Popes, All with One Face! (#litres_trial_promo)

The Bike Repairmen (#litres_trial_promo)

The East Is Up! (#litres_trial_promo)

If Peaches Could Be Painters (#litres_trial_promo)

Once the Years Were Numerous and the Funerals Few (#litres_trial_promo)

Satchmo Saved! (#litres_trial_promo)

God Blows the Whistle (#litres_trial_promo)

The Infirmities of Genius (#litres_trial_promo)

Farewell Summer (#litres_trial_promo)

The Dogs of Mesopotamia—Dyed by Spring (#litres_trial_promo)

Two Impressionists (#litres_trial_promo)

And Yet the Burning Bush Has Voice (#litres_trial_promo)

To an Early Morning Darning-Needle Dragonfly (#litres_trial_promo)

Poem Written on a Train Just Leaving a Small Southern Town (#litres_trial_promo)