She speaks the truth as she always has in 40 years of marriage especially when she’s lost in making dinner

Black lives matter in different ways to different people in the American rainbow especially bus companies

Millie on crutches in the day room tells Fred on his walker to find him.

Sometimes you sit for days sucking yourself in praying the right words will fall in your ear toboggan over the whorls

You had to have a Schwinn to lead this pack of boys riding bikes full speed baking under the Chicago sun laughing after senior year

In the paper this morning a woman in the suburbs complained she has to eat too much steak too often because her husband

You can’t vote for him and you can’t vote for her and you can’t vote for the others you’ve never heard of. The others may not be as odd

Someday you’ll be in bed dying like I am now and people you love and some you don’t will come by to say good-bye. They don’t know what to say because we’re all amat…

His cardiologist says Fred’s doing well for a man of 80. It won’t be his heart that kills him.

Only the blind man with his leader dog and tapping cane stops when the homeless man standing near the curb

Pistols in holsters very early this morning. She’s wearing a bra Donal Mahoney

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.

Spider in the sink this early autumn morning swirls in a whirlpool Donal Mahoney

Deep in the city where the poor wait for the Second Coming suicide is uncommon. No one leaps off skyscrapers