Tonight I can’t sleep so I ponder the universe and all the planets around me swirling in syncopation with me on one of them

Fred visits Bill every month at the facility he’s been in for year… Age and booze brought Bill there. He’s still strapped to his bed so he can’t go wandering again

Everyone who has money should drop it in a vat and anyone who needs money should take what they need a Swede, a Dane and two

Ringing in the ears has no cure. It’s called tinnitus and you can pronounce it the way it looks or the way

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

A woman was seated next to me as we waited for the debate to sta… The candidates were late taking th… She said she shouldn’t have come because she couldn’t vote for eith…

When a young woman like that sails into the conference room, all masts billowing, there’s nothing the men around the table can do

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

You start by throwing things out packing things that will fit in a smaller place, selling stuff that won’t, ignoring the birds because the seed’s run out

“One stall for all” is a new scenario for Wilbur. Thanks to his wife, he knew in the past the right thing to do but now he doesn’t know what

I started reading the paper early in grammar school to find the sports scores. It was fun for a child hoping to play

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

Linda’s an animal person who puts her money where her mouth is, owns a ranch outside the city and takes in kittens, puppies, birds that

Oliver Jones, now gray and grizzl… cut the Miller’s lawn for years.… a victim of Agent Orange, Oliver’… almost as old as the Millers, his… Recently he’s left ridges and tuft…

Something’s still bright when a widow dies and her son flies in gives her body to science has the movers