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A moment ago, in a flicker of pique, with a wave of the hand, I dispersed them. Glorious birds,
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.
He wants to be fair to both sides because there’s an election coming soon so he tells his side every day
The older I get the more I realiz… the importance of getting things d… before your mother announces anoth… assignment to roust me from my ham… As you know I’ve never been much
Phil doesn’t go to church but after midnight he enjoys watching preachers on TV swing their bibles in the air, march across the stage, yell
It’s midnight and I’m too tired to stroll in my Wall Street garden to check on the nightlife among the flowers
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
She’s been making quilts for half a century and he’s been making poems that long as well and every now and then he brings a chocolate shake to her place
Day and night preachers hawk the Message of the Cross on television. Once a month they pause and beg for money for
It’s an old clock hanging on a wall in a small room on the third floor. We go up there
Do you remember how to tie a Windsor knot the way your father taught you on graduation day in eighth grade
He looks for you until you find him while you wonder if he’s there Donal Mahoney
It’s a 50th anniversary dinner for Bernie and Blanche at the Elk… After dessert Blanche grabs the m… and primes the crowd by announcing… “Fifty year’s we’ve been married
As autumn turns colder there’s only one moth fluttering at midnight around the porch light. He’s the last of the flock
A homeless man hangs himself from a tree at night in the city to close out the year. At dawn a passerby uses
