America has no caste system but America has castes. Like every other nation America has its rich and poor with everyone else sardined

It took awhile to find Osama. It will take awhile to find the Briton with his knife in the desert of Iraq. They may bring him back

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

Sarah makes sandwiches all day, piling meat and trimmings high on pillowy bread she spreads apart before her customers’ eyes. Hardworking men love her sandwiche…

He’s always believed people of every faith can live in peace together in America no matter what happens

The haberdasher has that season of the year he rids his racks, his bins of oddments. I have no season of the year

Fifty years ago Jane got on a plane and flew away without saying good-bye. Her parents took her, I know.

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

In the woods soft snow falls on the first day of spring. Two daffodils laugh. Donal Mahoney

It isn’t a flophouse where Fred lives now but he calls it that a month after moving in and seeing his fellow

Millie calls the hotel at midnight to tell Willie he didn’t do anythi… It’s the way he didn’t do anything… that’s the problem because a man d… send a girl yellow roses on Valent…

I no longer put things back where they belong. I can’t remember where they came from never mind where

First, we place the neck on the bl… and put the basket underneath the head and then make sure the bl… is sharp enough before we ask the… one more time just to be polite:

The widow hires four men to rip out her lovely garden. She’s too old to weed it. All the roses will go to the young bride across

Unable to sleep Bill watches preachers on TV after midnight. The preachers warn the Saved Satan is coming to get them. Bill wonders why preachers do this…