Even as a child Charles couldn’t forgive other chi… not for something they had done but rather for who they were. They were inferior and couldn’t he…
Both of them had been to Korea. Both of them had made it back. One found a job
Fred brought his old comic books and some hard candy to a food pant… and didn’t think much about it. Just a different kind of donation. Maybe somebody would want them.
Two men tall, one from here and one from there, in raincoats at a bus stop,
Born at the foot of the mountain what will you do? You have time to decide but some die young.
Eight blondes with brown eyes nod at working men nearby. Sunflowers rule the sky. Donal Mahoney
Being poor on our patch of land was better than being poor all the years I’ve lived in the ci… We had a couple of cows, a rooster and seven hens.
They’re widows, old and gray, bent over a quilting frame, sewing to meet a deadline for the next raffle
Some things you can’t undo. A remark, perhaps, you can retract or try to with an explanation. But a certain look can burn forever in the mind
Sheep are by a goat while cattle are like swine, prodded, ye… cattle go by hammer while swine are by the hind leg hung then swung about to spigot.
A good reason to get married, Tim told me before he died, is you need a driver to take you home from a colonoscopy. When cancer runs in the family
On holidays I hear from Paul, who’s 80 if a day, who may have won his war on poverty without help from his friends. He won’t accept a cent.
In the paper this morning a woman in the suburbs complained she has to eat too much steak too often because her husband
You thought you knew her. She thought she knew you. Neither was true but this happens at times at Happy Hour on Fridays
If I knew I’d live forever I’d never send a poem out. No poem ever comes with ten fingers and ten toes so I’d keep revising, add
