Adolph’s been here since the Fort… So have Benito and Tojo. As soon as they arrived we gave each of them a huge furnace. They shovel coal all day and all n…

You think you got problems? You probably do but would you trade with Phillip, a Vietnam vet who still thinks Agent Orange lurks in

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

Every evening, up in my rooom, I try to finish a poem but Chicago is hot and it’s better outside,

The media is brimming with reports about the legacy of Barack Obama. He’s accomplished so much it’s tough for experts to name his signature achievement.

Evil without we worry about but not so much evil within, parent to evil without. Evil within, once called sin,

You find old poems in the attic in a box with the Remington Rand you wrote them on in the Sixties before computers were born. They were published then in little

There are a lot of people like me neither rich nor poor, idling in the middle who have never wante… for anything in our lives. We were reared by parents

In our tent we hear whippoorwills happy to see dawn dismiss the night Donal Mahoney

Larry and Bob have the same birth… Their friends at the Gathering Pl… where they plan to celebrate the y… Larry says his children will take… for a nice dinner and it will be g…

Dad, happy to see you’re taking a nap. I’m down at the pier so give me a shout when you wake up

A rainy Sunday and Pastor Smith is in his pulpit bellowing to the congregation, “I hope you understand

It’s Monday not Sunday and the frail lady in black is the only person in the pews. She walked in with