Noon meal at the nursing home and everyone is there chowing down and talking. Before dessert is served there’s an announcement to be made

There’s always something. Like the growth you found under your arm showering this morning but you decided to go

If I knew I’d live forever I’d never send a poem out. No poem ever comes with ten fingers and ten toes so I’d keep revising, add

I found an old friend in a cardboard box in the basement where I left him forty years ago.

You were a little older than three the day your father taught you how to pee, standing up. Your father trumpeted your triumph and your mother laughed in the kit…

No red kettles and bells this December outside the stores at the mall in our suburbs this year. They irritate shoppers,

If the poor we will always have with us, then the rich we will have with us as well. Our system gives birth to both. Greed is part of man’s nature,

No youngster himself, Fred often… “There are always preludes to hell… For Fred one of those preludes is… the things in life Fred can’t fix.… Another prelude is paying the trad…

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

Maury’s wife frets about growing old withering up and sagging so it’s up to Maury

I was warm and toasty, curled up, napping in amniotic fluid, without a worry when suddenly

In 1962 my father toiled in Quinc… two weeks, no more, and saw no blacks except for two young ladies who moved like swans

In St. Louis young blacks carry guns like cell phones and use them often to shoot each other, as we read in the daily paper

Mrs. O’Malley from across the alley has another small job for my father to do which makes my mother