The Sixties almost killed Will, a wasted man who sobered up long enough to vote for JFK. And he’d have voted for RFK if he hadn’t been killed as well.

Middle of the night someone’s in the house. Can’t be the wife asleep next to you. She’ll be mad

I bring a milkshake every other we… to an old man in a nursing home, a refugee from Germany who paid me 50 cents to cut his grass when I w… a kid in Chicago after WWII.

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 day Paul got married, his old girlfriend called his hous… just before he and his bride Anne caught the plane for their honeymo… Paul was outside packing the car

I saw Al once a month for 30 years, maybe more, doing business together. He retired to hunt bear in Alaska, hook Tarpon

Solid middle class he is always has been always will be until tomorrow on the highway

It’s a retirement haven for people with money but it works like a Roach Motel. People move i… but never move out. You and your wife move in to

It isn’t a flophouse where Fred lives now but he calls it that a month after moving in and seeing his fellow

Before dawn Bill stoops under crimson leaves of the low-hanging Japanese Maple

Every evening, up in my rooom, I try to finish a poem but Chicago is hot and it’s better outside,

Through the window I see the sun fire up for the last time today. There are jays in the trees near the meadow,

The amount in every paycheck has a period in it. Those who get a paycheck every week dream about seeing a comma three spaces in front of the perio…