The blind artist paints life as he wants it to be a tranquil sky a big sun smiling everyone laughing.

Midnight in San Francisco. Yoshiko is 93 and she can’t sleep so she sits in her recliner and nibbles on a rice cake,

The others, of course, are more ra… but less apt to show it. Whenever I strike, I never romp o… I stand with the wrist that I’ve… from the lady locked in my teeth

It’s midnight and I’m too tired to stroll in my Wall Street garden to check on the nightlife among the flowers

Happened 40 years ago senior year of college they were engaged to marry in June till he dropped her off

My wife’s amazed when I station myself at the computer writing this or that despite a hound dog

For years Rocky’s Diner had always done a great business for breakfast and lunch but his dinner business had fallen off recently as folks moved to the suburbs, got married, died or simp...

Sagebrush on Broadway a Big Mac wrapper tumbles softly down the street Donal Mahoney

You won’t find poetry anywhere unless you bring some of it with y… said Joseph Joubert, a French writer whose day job was working for Napoleon.

Does he remember? Jenny, how could he forget? Thirty years ago you roared into his office and raged about your cousin’s

Melba comes home from the grocery… She was walking away from the dair… He was there with a pregnant girl… He said to Melba, “Ma’m, is this… Melba told him it was margarine.

He’s a citizen who has a problem with people walking toward him walking behind him walking next to him

The poor are hungry in America. Their numbers would fill stadiums throughout this prosperous land. And feral cats are running wild, eating songbirds in our yards,

Faye gives Fred next door her sister’s number to call in case Faye dies. Faye’s 94 and feels okay. Her sister’s 90 and Fred’s

You thought you knew her. She thought she knew you. Neither was true but this happens at times at Happy Hour on Fridays