What we are not who we are matters to the world. Who we are not what we are

I don’t see her often since she died but when I do it’s eerie over there at dawn or dusk.

First leaves of autumn. Slow parachutes this morning almost at the curb. Donal Mahoney

If I hadn’t died, I’d still be bouncing along in that Greyhound bus through the mountains swigging a Coke.

A long time ago you bothered him somehow. Since then he has bothered you back. You don’t know how or

Wally and Stan neighbors on the same block for 30 years never had a problem until Wally asked Stan over

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.

Deep in the city where the poor wait for the Second Coming suicide is uncommon. No one leaps off skyscrapers

On their honeymoon he asked her not to sit down. Might bruise the peaches. Donal Mahoney

She’s at a flower show miles away arranging roses in a vase very carefully.

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:

Tattoos were anathema in ‘52 on any man who got one after an all-night drunk or to impress a girlfriend. But not a word was spoken to

After all these years my wife at the ironing board, perfect in panties. Donal Mahoney

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.