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Tables of Contents for I Have Words to Spend
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Preface
xiii
``I Have Words to Spend''
YESTERDAY
1
206
The Heat Wave
5
2
The Ghost at Dusk
7
2
The Shortcuts
9
3
Meet the Bully
12
2
``God, How I Loved That Suit''
14
2
Christmas---Now and Then
16
2
A Time for Trees
18
2
A Boy Named Pete
20
3
Sweet Sadness
23
3
The Cowboy Hat
26
2
Going Home Again
28
7
THE OBSERVER
Those Who Don't Make Headlines
35
2
Beauty That Lingers
37
2
The Sound of Glass Breaking
39
3
And That's the Way It Goes
42
3
The Signs That Really Matter
45
2
Despite the Fun and the Frolic
47
2
Return to the Bridge
49
2
Ten Years Ago Today
51
2
Poetry of Violence, and a Knockout
53
3
The Governor Visits
56
5
HOME
The Way Life Is: An Afternoon Visit
61
1
The Afternoon of a Reindeer
62
2
Beauty Flies Away
64
3
``Love, The Fantom''
67
2
Ballerina, Turn Around
69
2
The Child Who Came After the Others
71
3
Trying to Convince My Heart
74
2
Look Who's Writing a Letter to Santa Claus
76
3
The Wrens Come and Go
79
2
Suddenly, Another Birthday
81
2
My Mother's Hands
83
2
Father of the Bride
85
2
When It's Time to Say Good-bye
87
2
Father of the Groom
89
3
Saying Thank You
92
5
AWAY
A Day to Last Forever
97
2
The Lady with a Torch
99
2
Las Vegas: Dark and Bright
101
3
Bar Conversation---and an Ending
104
2
Musi, the Steward
106
2
In the Nation's Capital
108
3
Somehow, You Just Sit There
111
2
The Loneliness of the Long-distance Traveler
113
2
A Bit of Warmth in a Foreign Place
115
3
All the Cities We Love
118
3
Beginnings, Endings
121
4
FOLLIES AND FANCIES
What Worries Him
125
2
Why He's Not Running
127
2
Wearing Those Glasses
129
2
Our Food: Too Fast, Too Much
131
3
The Big Noise
134
2
The Gum Caper
136
2
The Whatchamacallits Are Taking Over the World
138
3
A Brush with Two Goliaths
141
2
A Few Rules for Survival
143
2
The Invitation Says R.S.V.P.
145
2
Color Me Green
147
2
The Game of Us and Them
149
2
The Invisible Man Who Follows Me
151
1
The Queen and I
152
2
The Year I Drove Through the Car Wash
154
3
Checking Out My Condition
157
2
``Who Are You?'' Here's the Answer
159
4
MOVIES, BOOKS, AND OTHERS
The Movie Talker
163
2
The Film Fan
165
2
Should He See The Exorcist?
167
2
Since The Exorcist
169
2
Little Orphan Annie Is Dead
171
2
Nostalgia's Magic at Work
173
2
The Next Best Seller
175
2
The Days of Sweet Innocence
177
2
The Spectators and Some Magazines
179
1
Many Farewells---A Summer Voice
180
3
Happily Ever After?
183
2
A Mountain Voice Echoes in the Poem
185
6
AND SO ON
Ah, to Be Cool
191
2
Does the Melody Really Linger On?
193
2
Tragedy's Terror: So Commonplace
195
2
How We Accept All the Changes
197
2
No Clark Kent and No Rescue
199
1
The Twins That Haunt Our Lives
200
2
Keep the Faith, Baby
202
2
A Small Town Called ``Embryo''
204
3
Sources
207