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I turn the porch light on at 4 a.m… to see if a miracle’s occurred and the paper’s landed somewhere in the snow blanketing our lawn. Instead I see a clump on the mat
A sense of shame is missing in the world today. If you find it, burp Donal Mahoney
You never know who’ll be there though folks are dying to get in. Then suddenly you’re at the door, hat in hand,
You won’t find poetry anywhere unless you bring some of it with y… said Joseph Joubert, a French writer whose day job was working for Napoleon.
Every time we have a big election in America, my wife of many years asks me if I’m going to vote in the primary although she knows I never do because one has to decl…
It was the first time that senators had been asked to go home and address parent-teacher meetings at all the middle schools in their states. Each had been given a sheet of talking point...
Great Dane out walking day after the funeral small widow next door Donal Mahoney
The kitchens of Auschwitz are belching again. Ancient chefs, puffed hats askew, storm once more
There are good souls who say poverty need not always be with us who say there’s a way to make it disappear
He slaughters his hamburger steak with a fork and a butter knife, massacres ringlets of onions again and again thumps catsup all over
Paddy Dineen enjoyed good health till his heart gave out while filling his cart in a health food store.
The Nazis call her Hilda, this ancient woman who makes a simple living in a bathroom in Berlin giving high colonics
In the fourth grade too many moons ago a reassuring teacher looked over my shoulder and said not to worry about
Black lives matter in different ways to different people in the American rainbow especially bus companies
Red, yellow, brown work well together in a portrait of society. Add black, no problem. But if we remove the red,
