a haiku
I’m amazed at the difference between my friend and me. His response to life is so different from mine. I live deep in the city
They have a few bucks, the 62 richest billionaires in the… The Big 62 have half as much weal… as the bottom half of the world’s… according to Oxfam International.
Linda’s on TV this morning being interviewed by someone who specializes in interviewing unusual people. Linda’s a smart woman but
Yours is the first email I opened… I appreciate your suggested revisi… to send the work back once I’ve ma… I can tell you spent a lot of time… I’m afraid, however, that I can’t…
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…
Wonder Woman they call Sylvia, who excels at raising money to put child abusers in prison. The money she raises allows attorneys to prosecute
An odd bobcat my father was looked more like a Siamese asleep in his recliner
A homeless man hangs himself from a tree at night in the city to close out the year. At dawn a passerby uses
In a very crowded bar Fred decides he must tell this fellow something important so he whispers
All lives matter now unless they’re inconvenient. No room in the womb. Donal Mahoney
A lovely neighborhood this Sunday afternoon is rocked again by random gunshots. The shots make Bertha wonder, as she sips tea in her old rocker,
This just in. In metro St. Louis last night a woman gave birth to a boy in the bathroom of her second-floor apartment.
Woman in a window brushing long hair madly screams at a little boy down in the street licking an ice cream cone
In 1962 my father toiled in Quinc… two weeks, no more, and saw no blacks except for two young ladies who moved like swans
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
