| They were waiting in the airport ... | p. 15 |
| Will someone please explain to me ... | p. 17 |
| I don't want to fling accusations ... | p. 18 |
| A person who liked tearooms said ... | p. 19 |
| Mother was in the hospital ... | p. 20 |
| Are all Christian Scientists like ... | p. 21 |
| A color photograph taken ... | p. 23 |
| Kurt is the middle son of a ... | p. 24 |
| If the real things in life are all ... | p. 26 |
| When their older son came home ... | p. 27 |
| I belong to the older ... | p. 28 |
| He had been an exchange student ... | p. 30 |
| There is a footnote. Several years ... | p. 32 |
| "Driving back from Marin at night ..." | p. 33 |
| "I had to go all the way to ..." | p. 34 |
| "All your life while you're growing up ..." | p. 36 |
| She grew up in Chicago, across ... | p. 37 |
| She waited till her boyfriend was ... | p. 38 |
| She had a high IQ - her teachers ... | p. 39 |
| The daughter did not wait idly ... | p. 41 |
| "Having gotten away with murder ..." | p. 43 |
| Edward R. Murrow, it was, had ... | p. 44 |
| I believe life is a dubious ... | p. 47 |
| His mother was seventeen years ... | p. 48 |
| Friday afternoon I caught the ... | p. 50 |
| Sunday morning Father Jeffrey ... | p. 53 |
| Father Jeffrey wrote that George ... | p. 54 |
| After everyone left I helped ... | p. 55 |
| When my aunt the Abbess was ... | p. 59 |
| Late one night a message came ... | p. 60 |
| Father's house had been furnished ... | p. 61 |
| She wanted, she wrote, a husband ... | p. 63 |
| Raining. And invited to her ... | p. 65 |
| A murderer kills human flesh ... | p. 67 |
| It doesn't excuse his rudeness ... | p. 69 |
| Rollerdrome | p. 75 |
| AFM Dash 4 | p. 78 |
| Truth | p. 80 |
| Virgil at Pittsburg, Kans | p. 87 |
| Ars(e) Poetica | p. 89 |
| Not Michelangelo's David | p. 93 |
| Banker | p. 96 |
| Arthur and Mae | p. 97 |
| Vietnam Story | p. 98 |
| Lullaby | p. 101 |
| Card Reading | p. 104 |
| Beloved Disciple | p. 109 |
| Crime and Punishment | p. 111 |
| Ploesti | p. 113 |
| Grievance | p. 114 |
| The Millionaire | p. 120 |
| Barracks 1177 | p. 129 |
| What Do You Want? | p. 131 |
| To a Virgin, to Make Much of Entropy | p. 132 |
| On the Occasion When an Eminent New Critic Was Unable to Have a Student's Work Published in a College Quarterly | p. 133 |
| Opening Chorus of Cricket Players for an Opera Based on The Loved One by Evelyn Waugh | p. 134 |
| Kevin, who reads my poems in ... | p. 139 |
| The letter was from this person ... | p. 140 |
| When I was growing up all the ... | p. 143 |
| This young man has read all my ... | p. 146 |
| Real English poets have only ... | p. 148 |
| In high school I could never ... | p. 149 |
| After that first year of college ... | p. 151 |
| Emma was here for supper last ... | p. 153 |
| It's not as if Emma hasn't ... | p. 155 |
| It didn't take long deciding ... | p. 156 |
| Kevin takes this condom business ... | p. 159 |
| Sex was so much simpler in the ... | p. 160 |
| AIDS has made Kevin into some- ... | p. 162 |
| We were going out to dinner ... | p. 165 |
| Buttons' last year was not an easy ... | p. 168 |
| What is there about cats that makes ... | p. 170 |
| Kevin dreamed last night that Buttons ... | p. 171 |
| A bureaucrat may be defined ... | p. 172 |
| Kevin asks why a man in his ... | p. 174 |
| I wasn't all that innocent ... | p. 176 |
| Wheeler Gibson dropped out of ... | p. 177 |
| We were in Father Gene's office ... | p. 179 |
| Sheep being separated ... | p. 183 |
| This morning without any ... | p. 184 |
| In a country that loves cults ... | p. 186 |
| How disappointing that the world ... | p. 187 |
| I don't think a person can be ... | p. 189 |
| I asked my father once why he ... | p. 192 |
| "What do you do?" "You know very ..." | p. 195 |
| There comes a moment in every ... | p. 197 |
| My chat pile kitty from Webb City ... | p. 199 |
| My grandfather discovered lead ... | p. 201 |
| The first time my sister admitted ... | p. 203 |
| How can you tell a person is ... | p. 204 |
| After visits to several doctors ... | p. 206 |
| In the nursing home she is known ... | p. 208 |
| When I was a student, teachers ... | p. 210 |
| The last time I saw her, mother ... | p. 212 |
| Michael called twice, the first time ... | p. 214 |
| Men who like women are boring ... | p. 216 |
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