On a clear day in the day room he will tell anyone he has had an askew life. When he was a small boy out for a Sunday walk

Elmo has spent 40 years cutting hair in a little shop in a country town along the Mississippi. Vegetables and meat

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…

He wants to do certain things he should have done before old age and illness reaped their harve… The doctor gives him days perhaps a week to breathe

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

He’s a vet from Vietnam who won’t say much about what happened over there except to say his problem began with Agent Orange,

The amount in every paycheck has a period in it. Those who get a paycheck every week dream about seeing a comma three spaces in front of the perio…

If the greatest of these is charit… then tell me again why it’s gauche if this young man in a booth at a bar

“Screw the Vernal Equinox” is all Cootie Kelly ever says sitting triumphant with his foaming glass of Guinness on the last stool at Maggie’s

I lived in the attic back then, and late those evenings I had to s… and couldn’t afford to go drinking I’d run down to the deli and buy bagels and smoked lox.

Fred’s a reasonable man something he takes pride in. Just the other night before he threw a dish against the wall while

Carnage rolls across the sand amid the silence of imams Women raped,

In the fall we lose an hour in most of the United States when we have to turn our clocks back. This is not the case

Used to be she’d tell him what to get at the grocery store and he always brought it back. Now she makes a list.

Rudy in his wheelchair gets around pretty good. He has a good job and transportation via a special van. He shops at local stores and everyone is nice except at the drug store where the ...