Being out of work during the holidays is twice as bad and twice that’s happened now to Wally Ballew
Widow in a rocker pets her calico cat long strokes slowly. With the cat purring and the widow humming
A friend in England rings me up and we talk about this and that. He asks if my president’s in touch with all that’s going on and I say he should be in touch, going to
When I was in grammar school I knew it was Wednesday when I looked out the window and saw across the street three trash cans at the curb
When my neighbor told me over the fence a month ago the doctor said she had two years to live,
Find the book and blow the dust off. It’s somewhere in the house.
I told my guest it’s just a poem doesn’t mean a thing a salad tossed with colors bright
You take care now, Harold, and don’t slip on the ice looking for a good bookstore on the streets of Chicago. Print is dead, Harold,
A spelunker he was from adolescence on. An outdoorsman with the best equipment exploring caves
Used to be she’d tell him what to get at the grocery store and he always brought it back. Now she makes a list.
Reunions can happen and leave you speechless. I’m standing at a bank of elevators in a hospital going to visit my wife
With a smile, the POTUS tangoes in Argentina while in Belgium and the rest of the World people try not to cry.
Roscoe and two cousins rented a va… and drove to Mississippi for the f… of another cousin they grew up wit… It took six hours to get where three old men didn’t want to go
We’re all salmon swimming upstream until the job’s done. Some of us know it and some of us don’t.
Phone rings. Wilbur answers it. “This is Grace. Is Thelma there?… “No,” says Wilbur. “She’s out won… “You mean wandering about?” ‘No, she used to wander about. No…