These are old people retired and driving slowly from small apartments in economy cars getting out on canes

He’s Brad and he’s captain of the football team. He’s been chosen prom king and has a scholarship to college. Everything’s going well for him

Time’s a jet plane when you’re young. You go to school get a good job marry someone nice

Before the Inauguration the man must divest himself of his stocks and bonds close every hotel he owns lay off hundreds of employees

There’s a football field between u… I’m in one of the end zones bellow… and you’re in the other one bawlin… the cliffs of your cheekbones streaked with mascara.

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

It’s not Clyde who sleeps in a different doorway every night to avoid the cops and it’s not Wayne who sleeps in the

It will be a while before Fred’s hometown has its annual food drive, he told me. That’s an important event because it helps stock the pantry at the small charity where he volunteers. Ri...

The old man crossing the street has a bad limp we try to ignore. No one wants to look

There’s a force that makes a boulder hard to push up a hill. And there’s always a boulder and always a hill when it comes to helping the poor find something

When you have an hour to live what matters then is Christ in a pyx in the vest pocket

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

I get an email every day from a man I don’t know and doesn’t know me. Many people receive blind copies of his emails.

It’s a kindergarten soccer team and Jack’s the biggest kid. His father is the coach. The team is undefeated but there’s a problem

I used to be flexible about meetings at work. Change the hour of a meeting, no problem for me.