This is Granny in the Ozarks call… Please come down before spring goes away for summer. The geese are coming through and landing on the pond

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

And so I’ll tell old Max, and maybe he will listen, it’s time to call the plumber in and tell him,

Fred’s not a hunter but Animus is a beast he’d hunt down and kill and mount on his wall if he had a clear shot

Other than death there’s no way to escape them unless you’re a hummingbird

If a marriage doesn’t work out you get a divorce and look for someone else. If a poem doesn’t work out you put it in a folder and

November’s lovely in the rain, she… from her rocker near the window to no one in particular although the butler’s waiting for her groce… having walked her Pekingese.

It’s your anniversary so you’re thinking steak but your wife wants ramen so you go to a nice place and order the fancy ramen

I get an email every day from a man I don’t know and doesn’t know me. Many people receive blind copies of his emails.

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

First time seeing this doctor, a specialist. Took a month to get an appointment. The waiting room’s packed. I grab the last seat

During the day there might be three cars parked at different places anywhere on the block. But at midnight there isn’t

In a yard abandoned this winter when the owner moved grass is growing this spring