We’ve moved my wife and I from home to the last place we’ll ever live and she wants to know why

There’s a football field between u… I’m in one of the end zones bellow… and you’re in the other one bawlin… the cliffs of your cheekbones streaked with mascara.

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

Old barber shop in a neighborhood never posh now poor. A single chair with an ancient barber

In America we say we get the government we deserve. That’s been true for the past eight years.

On a clear day in the day room he will tell anyone he has had an askew life. When he was a small boy out for a Sunday walk

If you arrive too early at the public library and stand on the steps with Mabel till the doors open

Let’s stop the crying, Millie. It’s true our friends are dying. They’re old like you and me. Why not celebrate instead that 80 years ago you and I

The scruffy old man and his white poodle on a long red leash were neighborhood icons years ago down at the corner

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

Sometimes a person can go too far, Mickey said, two stools over downing another beer,

Red, yellow, brown work well together in a portrait of society. Add black, no problem. But if we remove the red,

Tonight I can’t sleep so I ponder the universe and all the planets around me swirling in syncopation with me on one of them

I found an old friend in a cardboard box in the basement where I left him forty years ago.

Martin, a very senior citizen, wants to get a bucket and knife and go hunt up some greens in a field in Alabama. But in spite of his yearnings for a big bowl of greens, he knows his wif...