Raul is a kind man who plays marimba in a salsa band at LA clubs late into the night. Some afternoons he plays

Lamentations loud amid the tears following Orlando. Another call to take guns from people

When the president speaks from the podium and mentions the 20 children shot to death at Sandy Hook by a lunatic with a rifle,

I should have said yes, meet you anywhere you want for lunch, even that greasy spoon with the lousy chili and corn dogs… Every five years or so we meet

The others, of course, are more ra… but less apt to show it. Whenever I strike, I never romp o… I stand with the wrist that I’ve… from the lady locked in my teeth

It’s not the same as seeing the po… in Bangladesh on PBS and hearing Gwen or Judy tell us about them b… the poor in Bangladesh scream in s… brown and gaunt and hollow-eyed.

Elmo has spent 40 years cutting hair in a little shop in a country town along the Mississippi. Vegetables and meat

It used to bother me to see odd people leapfrog parking meters and shout every day is Halloween until

Paul was at the office when the first atomic bomb fell and when Muntz TVs replaced console radios and the first man landed on the mo… He saw the first big computers tru…

A reporter asked Wilbur once if there were any advantages to being deaf and Wilbur used sign language to say not that he could think of

Every four years I vote and every four years for the last 40 years the same lady has signed me in

It’s war plain and simple when I fill the feeder out in the sycamore with millet and niger

For years Willie has saved his mo… investing it in stocks and bonds, waiting to sit in his recliner each quarter with a martini reviewing his profits.

I will never forget him but I can’t remember his name it’s been so long ago. Maybe I never knew it. But I think of him on days