After World War II before television, before women had tattoos before men wore earrings, I was a child in a world

It’s pretty simple, really. The world will end whether we believe the Bible is a myth or truth. If the Bible is the truth,

Summer evenings after the news at 6 p.m. the Widow Murphy comes out of her tiny bungalow and sits on her front porch swing

The uncommon is common in America today. Not that there’s anything wrong with that, Seinfeld

A poor man comes to the door after the storm last winter and asks if he can have something to eat if he shovels the walk. You say forget about the snow.

He asked and so I told him. The “cancer” poems stem from cancer in the family. Daughter’s terminal. Son’s a five-year survivor.

Seeing is believing smart people often tell me but no one ever told me believing is seeing

It’s time to stop the killing by order of the courts. Time to stop the injections

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

A drunk on the subway tells another drunk something a bartender told him. He says if the rich guy wins, it will be the first time

A corner sentinel for 40 years, Charlie’s Diner is the only landmark in a neighborhood of blue-collar people who love their burgers thick

It’s Monday not Sunday and the frail lady in black is the only person in the pews. She walked in with

It’s many miles from easy to the e… For some, the end is dawn. For ot… the nightfall of imbroglio because the end depends upon your ticket and every ticket’s punched one-way…

Two doves on a telephone wire wait tor the blue jays to finish e… bread put out for the birds. When the jays arrived, sparrows fled into the trees