And so I’ll tell old Max, and maybe he will listen, it’s time to call the plumber in and tell him,
America has no caste system but America has castes. Like every other nation America has its rich and poor with everyone else sardined
You’re glad when the holidays are over and everyone’s gone home and the ribbons and wrappings are balled up in the garbage.
July in the streets of Mexico City: One of the women one never would marry. One of the women one sees
When the president speaks from the podium and mentions the 20 children shot to death at Sandy Hook by a lunatic with a rifle,
There are pockets of them everywhere, quiet and discreet. Usually they meet once a week
In the summer of 1956, any Saturday at midnight when the moon was full and the stars were bright, you would see Grandma Groth
Alvin didn’t want to be anybody else. He didn’t want to be himself either. Money wasn’t a problem.
He publishes poems by writers who find no publishers elsewhere. They suffer rejection and he gives them hope.
Tommy is the only man for miles around who can knot a ti… Old farmers come to town on Satur… and wave from pickups with respect when they see Tommy on the street
You have the back rent and come home from work and find everything in a mountain out on the lawn with the kids sitting on the curb crying
hillary dillary dock monica ran up bill’s sock the clock struck three bill said whee hillary dillary dock
Don’t recall meeting a human being at the megastore staffed by robots in the flesh
Paddy Dineen enjoyed good health till his heart gave out while filling his cart in a health food store.
I sit here at peace and mind my own business and hope for a butterfly. I never take one out of the air. I paint only the flight of the but…