“If you don’t like the gun, my dea… I can exchange it for a negligee b… I’ve given you many negligees. I think a gun’s important to have around the house

He tried so hard to be everybody’s friend, agreed with everything we said. Some of us liked him, others were indifferent,

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

Departures from the norm we are. Not just you and me but

The beauty of gray I never noticed until the other day I saw this mockingbird, a quiet beauty in gray,

Officer Burks brings Max the Bloodhound into the alley and Max immediately strains at his leash.

The guillotine dropped between you and a friend over coffee and small talk. The first time it dropped it was someone who said

A boy, maybe 5, dancing in the candy aisle of a megastore at 6 a.m., a month before Hallowee… is overjoyed by the harvest on every shelf, his caramel skin

No Supper for a Year My wife looks out the kitchen wind… and tells me the starlings are bac… the same big flock as yesterday strolling around our yard

Someone has to cut the grass Molly tells Bill dozing off in his recliner too weary to cut it. For years a vet from Vietnam

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

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

Melanie cried for hours the day a drunk driver ran over her dog a week after she had an abortion. She loved that dog so much she told her mother she knew

Niagara Falls her silver hair so long it bounces off the swan