After Saturday tennis I came home took a nap and woke up dizzy had trouble walking. My balance was off so I went to bed and slept 20 hours

“Quiet, please,” I tell her, “I want to hear the music.” She is sitting next to me again, this time on a paisley couch, a woman in a lime bikini I met

Easter Brunch is a big deal in the metropolis where Fred lives… Restaurants run their ads Ash Wednesday through Good Frida… Years ago brunch began at 11

What we are not who we are matters to the world. Who we are not what we are

You see things at the rest home you don’t expect to see. New veteran in his Korea cap is whipping everyone else in pool. He never has to bend over

A gray summer day the sun is on vacation sunflowers hang their heads Donal Mahoney

No more nudes in Playboy according to the anchor on the Nightly News. Playboy has declared nudes passé because

The stench came first, the young man remembers. It was as if someone had grabbed him by the ankles, turned him upside down

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

The ones we didn’t abort we’re starting to euthanize so no worries there. It’s the ones in the middle still walking around

She has wanted to be Miss America since third grade when she won the… in Snow White and the Seven Dwar… Now a finalist, she has told the j… she wants to lecture at colleges o…

Mrs. O’Malley from across the alley has another small job for my father to do which makes my mother

A group of older men gather once a week to talk about life after a heart attack. Old Len chews tobacco still and tells jokes in a voice so low

Magnificent animal Harambe, the Silverback gorilla killed at t… Lovely child, the three-year-old w… jumped in Harambe’s den. The mother took her son to the zoo

If a marriage doesn’t work out you get a divorce and look for someone else. If a poem doesn’t work out you put it in a folder and