When we were kids growing up in the city we had prairies and a little hill and we’d put Stevie

When you were a boy in 1948 living on a block of bungalows in Chicago right after WWII you had a red wagon you pulled behind your mother

Liberal or conservative the questionnaire asks about migrants. Fred’s in the middle. Asked about The Wall

The guillotine dropped between you and a friend over coffee and small talk. The first time it dropped it was someone who said

Fred must explain Halloween to Op… when he gets home from the poker g… He just had another bad Halloween… He thinks Opal doesn’t know but E… from across the street called Opal

A gathering of elders from the local rest home is out for a walk after dusk on canes and walkers admiring roses and lilies

Old Sam on his deathbed says he’d rewrite his life if he could. He’d do so many things differently… be nice to all his wives if he cou… but luckily they had died before h…

When Bernie wakes at 6 a.m. there’s a piano on his chest and Erroll Garner’s playing “Mist… Sinatra’s on the headboard improvising lyrics

A student asks the old poet why he has spent so many years writing. The old poet says no one’s asked him that before. He needs a minute to answer.

When I was eight I jumped off a roof as if I had a parachute and broke a leg. He was there when I landed,

Forget the fall equinox. Fall arrives when all the moths that dance on summer nights around the porch light disappear when the first cold dawn appears.

We’re going dancing, my wife and… to a Charity Ball high in the sky… Glenn Miller’s band has been play… since 1944, the year his plane got… over the English Channel.

Pete reads a story about an artist who never sold a painting until he… and then sold one for a million do… Finding the artist on the internet… his work is just odd shapes in bri…

An hour a day, sometimes more, I chipped away with mallet and chisel on a block of marble

Maury’s wife frets about growing old withering up and sagging so it’s up to Maury