Liberal or conservative the questionnaire asks about migrants. Fred’s in the middle. Asked about The Wall

When Normal Norman takes his seat in Room 220 in Dumbach Hall to hear the eminent Dr. Engelhard… recite Beowulf again, Norman knows that he can suck

Phone rings. Wilbur answers it. “This is Grace. Is Thelma there?… “No,” says Wilbur. “She’s out won… “You mean wandering about?” ‘No, she used to wander about. No…

The blind artist paints life as he wants it to be a tranquil sky a big sun smiling everyone laughing.

Fancy spam emails I don’t mind nor the ones cobbled in broken English from someone who says he’s with a bank overseas

A corner sentinel for 40 years, Charlie’s Diner is the only landmark in a neighborhood of blue-collar people who love their burgers thick

I have an old friend who was told some time ago he had six months to live. We live far apart now and he told me about this in an email shortly after the doctor told him. The six months ...

If I hadn’t died, I’d still be bouncing along in that Greyhound bus through the mountains swigging a Coke.

He likes people if they are useful. Women are useful. Employees are useful. Voters are useful.

You never know who’ll be there though folks are dying to get in. Then suddenly you’re at the door, hat in hand,

There are poems everywhere but you have to find them, a teacher told my class long ago. I was a kid sitting at a desk, cowlicks sprouting from my scalp,

The priest had been here earlier a… and relatives and friends in singl… “Sorry for your troubles,” one by… bending over Maggie Murphy, silen… a foot or so from Paddy, resplende…

Roscoe and two cousins rented a va… and drove to Mississippi for the f… of another cousin they grew up wit… It took six hours to get where three old men didn’t want to go

These are old people retired and driving slowly from small apartments in economy cars getting out on canes