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
In the fall we lose an hour in most of the United States when we have to turn our clocks back. This is not the case
Strong man Samson told Delilah seven locks of hair were the secret of his strength
Cold Coffee they call him and only a few people know his real name, this odd fellow who raises pigs off the coast of Ireland and comes to town
Mae mailed Christmas cards today, fewer again this year because death has made her address book a skeleton. She has a son in Russia
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
The other day I was talking to a neighbor who said he has found a way to help the poor and improve our environment simultaneously. It’s no secret, he said, that we have a dire food shor...
She speaks the truth as she always has in 40 years of marriage especially when she’s lost in making dinner
You find old poems in the attic in a box with the Remington Rand you wrote them on in the Sixties before computers were born. They were published then in little
Middle of the night someone’s in the house. Can’t be the wife asleep next to you. She’ll be mad
If America is lucky it might still happen. That lawsuit about the university accused of bilking students might go to trial and the accused
Two men tall, one from here and one from there, in raincoats at a bus stop,
Every evening, up in my rooom, I try to finish a poem but Chicago is hot and it’s better outside,
My wife likes to garden. She’s crazy about roses, lilies and daisies. She says I should get out in the garden and weed.
He doesn’t understand distressed j… Designer jeans with rents and tear… look like the rags he grew up in wearing other people’s discards. His mother got his jeans from a ch…