It’s not the same as seeing the po… in Bangladesh on PBS and hearing Gwen or Judy tell us about them b… the poor in Bangladesh scream in s… brown and gaunt and hollow-eyed.
There are Merry-Go-Rounds on Main Street all over America. They hide in storefronts offering payday loans to people who can’t borrow money anywhere else.
It’s never what she says always how she says it and how she stands when she says it and what she says
He slaughters his hamburger steak with a fork and a butter knife, massacres ringlets of onions again and again thumps catsup all over
Loud preacher bellows on Sunday what a silent praying mantis knows Donal Mahoney
When Bill goes home to the church of his youth he finds things are different. They don’t sing “Amazing Grace” the way they did when he was
Porch light bright all night keeps thieves away but not the moths that dance till dawn
When a young woman like that sails into the conference room, all masts billowing, there’s nothing the men around the table can do
Spring will eventually arrive, Tom tells his youngest daughter looking out the window at the snow… Take heart, he tells her, and listen for the blue jays when
A clerk in a health food store became upset when I said I didn’t see anything I wanted since I wasn’t a vegan or vegetarian and liked my
The editor of the school paper came at the appointed hour and found the old poet in his backyard alert in a lawn chair with a
Where I live the press says teen use of heroin is epidemic. I thought an epidemic was a widespread disease afflicting thousands caught in
He likes people if they are useful. Women are useful. Employees are useful. Voters are useful.
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,
Dubville used to be a quiet town, not that much was going on. The young would move to the city after high school… The elderly would stay because
