a haiku
How are things, Adolph? This is Brian, from NBC. Thanks for the interview. It will air in September if the network brings me back.
I told my guest it’s just a poem doesn’t mean a thing a salad tossed with colors bright
I turn the porch light on at 4 a.m… to see if a miracle’s occurred and the paper’s landed somewhere in the snow blanketing our lawn. Instead I see a clump on the mat
On Saturday mornings several bowed citizens gather on the sidewalk outside the clinic to read the Bible and pray.
Some women use perfume and that’s fine. Some don’t and that’s fine too. Over the years
Evil without we worry about but not so much evil within, parent to evil without. Evil within, once called sin,
When will you understand it’s all about me. The world we live in whirls around my axis. Once you understand
Fred visits Bill every month at the facility he’s been in for year… Age and booze brought Bill there. He’s still strapped to his bed so he can’t go wandering again
What if after Browne has gone one of us discovers who Browne was… leads the rally to his room before the maid has time to broom the web… retrieve from underneath the bed
What will she do with him? That is, if she’s elected. She’ll have to take him with her to the White House after keeping him in the doghouse.
Tea in the afternoon with his wife of many years is usually peaceful, Hubert thinks before he makes his announcement. Then he says it. “I’m going upstairs,” Hubert tells Ruth as he hois...
Zenobia Jackson told Officer Murphy that her husband, Rufus, was 73 years old and “a wonderful man when he was awake” but for the past year he had been jerking “something terrible” duri...
I was just a boy but I remember Hitler at the start and how too few understood his plan to
Spider in the sink this early autumn morning swirls in a whirlpool Donal Mahoney
Wally and Fred voted in the big election and then went to O’Leary’s Bar for a couple of beers. O’Leary’s is where men who work for the city go after every important election. Chicago ha...
