We’ve moved my wife and I from home to the last place we’ll ever live and she wants to know why
The doctor tells Phil and his wif… he’s in pretty good health for a m… his age but he needs to exercise. And Phil says he agrees and then goes on to explain
In your mind you hear words snarling all day long but no poem arrives. The words are locked
Bill hates to go to parties but he loves to go to wakes. One of the advantages of being old, he says, is that there are fewer parties to go to but a lot more wakes. At parties he finds ...
Born at the foot of the mountain what will you do? You have time to decide but some die young.
I found an old friend in a cardboard box in the basement where I left him forty years ago.
If I owned a magazine I’d publish folks who agree with me as long as they remained abstract,
The old man crossing the street has a bad limp we try to ignore. No one wants to look
After Saturday tennis I came home took a nap and woke up dizzy had trouble walking. My balance was off so I went to bed and slept 20 hours
Freddie and Fern were an old couple, a very old couple if truth be told, but on the matter of age, the truth seldom surfaced. Their kids were grown and gone and had families of their ow...
This traveling salesman has worn out six vans in 40 years and he hopes to retire soon. Age and illness
A neighbor lady I hadn’t seen in a year I heard was bedridden. Her former husband dropped by, asked if I’d to take in her trash… when I brought in my own.
Puerto Rican girl thin, thin, let street lights pour bourbon on your hair, anise on your skin.
They’re starlets Hollywood has yet to discover, two nice young ladies who assemble sandwiches at the Subway Shop Monday through Friday at noon.
An hour a day, sometimes more, I chipped away with mallet and chisel on a block of marble