Neighbors were happy to see Fred and Opal come back for the annual block party. Old Bill asked Fred why they moved and Fred said

After all the tests and the doctor’s explanation she thinks of them not as 20 points of cancer but as 20 rusty nails

The two religions differ in a number of ways Insha’Allah! Alleluia! There’s a radical difference especially in their martyrs.

There’s a football field between u… I’m in one of the end zones bellow… and you’re in the other one bawlin… the cliffs of your cheekbones streaked with mascara.

Before the Inauguration the man must divest himself of his stocks and bonds close every hotel he owns lay off hundreds of employees

twenty-four houses on the same block everyone inside milling about one lost a job

Even as a child Charles couldn’t forgive other chi… not for something they had done but rather for who they were. They were inferior and couldn’t he…

Simply because anchors have little to say means they’ll keep saying it till others believe. This is America.

I told my son now that he’s a father he has to be careful about what he says around his child. No swearing, of course,

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

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

He asked and so I told him. The “cancer” poems stem from cancer in the family. Daughter’s terminal. Son’s a five-year survivor.

I have a new email address. Old one may work for awhile but like life, it can stop at any time… One problem so far. This new address sends emails

After World War II before television, before women had tattoos before men wore earrings, I was a child in a world