When Homer stubs his toe or bumps his elbow, the pain is always piercing but Homer’s a pious man so swearing isn’t for him.

After services on Sunday the old Marlboro man puts his Bible under his arm and talks to his pastor through a hole in his neck.

Wonder Woman they call Sylvia, who excels at raising money to put child abusers in prison. The money she raises allows attorneys to prosecute

It’s an old clock hanging on a wall in a small room on the third floor. We go up there

It was stupid of Walt not to show it to Joan before they got married but he was too shy. He had no idea

Puerto Rican girl thin, thin, let street lights pour bourbon on your hair, anise on your skin.

It’s one thing to work in an office because your skills say you must. It’s another to want to hang out with

Evil without we worry about but not so much evil within, parent to evil without. Evil within, once called sin,

Paul’s not a veteran of Vietnam but he goes there in his dreams to watch his brother Tim walk in hazy streams sprayed with Agent Orange before he

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.

“Tell Pablo I cannot see!” says the man in the Picasso painti… as I pass by, program in hand. The man has a hairy nose where each of his ears should be.

Raul is a kind man who plays marimba in a salsa band at LA clubs late into the night. Some afternoons he plays

Jesse was a common man he never made a lot of money he had a troubled marriage. His wife left him for another man he never saw his kids again.

Made in America means different things to different people. In 1998 they made our old Camry in Japan.

Through the window I see the sun fire up for the last time today. There are jays in the trees near the meadow,