Evan Hunter Criminal Conversation

This is for my daughter,

AMANDA FINLEY

— And so the conversation slips

Among velleities and carefully caught regrets

Through attenuated tones of violins

Mingled with remote cornets

And begins.

T. S. Eliot

Portrait of a Lady

Excerpts from “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,” “Portrait of a Lady,” and “The Waste Land” in COLLECTED POEMS 1909–1962 by T. S. Eliot, copyright © 1936 by Harcourt Brace & Company, copyright © 1964, 1963 by T. S. Eliot. Reprinted by permission of the publisher.

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