There are a lot of people like me neither rich nor poor, idling in the middle who have never wante… for anything in our lives. We were reared by parents

You see things at the rest home you don’t expect to see. New veteran in his Korea cap is whipping everyone else in pool. He never has to bend over

Middle of the night someone’s in the house. Can’t be the wife asleep next to you. She’ll be mad

It’s time to leave the man alone. He’s getting old, his wife says. He’s really slowing down. He’s always been a man occupied with one thing

Wally made the long drive home from vacation on Election Day because he wanted to vote. He went for a jog and then to the… and cast his vote for his candidat…

You think it’s easy, embalming bodies in these nightmares I have every night, bodies a vulture

Tornadoes in the parlor, in the kitchen, in the bathroom, t… churned every hour Dad was home. He never worked and with good reason.

Thirty years I’ve lived in Missou… with its major threat for an earth… So far no problems but experts say the big one could arrive any day. California’s lovely but with its q…

Sleet on the turnpike in the middle of the night but I keep driving, both hands on the wheel, nowhere to pull off,

Last night my recliner broke. I used the lever to lean back and I went way back, almost heels over head. A shock. I hate going to the recliner store

His wife takes him to dinner as she always does on his birthday wearing bright red lipstick, a color she detests but he likes.

The two weeks I spent in that small town on assignment, I saw no blacks except for two older women regal in every way,

I told my guest it’s just a poem doesn’t mean a thing a salad tossed with colors bright