Fifty years ago Jane got on a plane and flew away without saying good-bye. Her parents took her, I know.

He wants to be fair to both sides because there’s an election coming soon so he tells his side every day

An imam should say eternity lasts too long to sit by the fire Donal Mahoney

Jimmy was visiting his father when Mr. Crenshaw called to say Mrs. Bittles had died the night before of a sudden heart attack.

In 1961, Newton Minow said television is a vast wasteland. I was reading four papers a day th… and seldom watched television, had no opinion on what he said.

The haberdasher has that season of the year he rids his racks, his bins of oddments. I have no season of the year

After the TV mavens had their say the gnomes crept out of their cave… spoke and returned to their caves. Thunder struck, hell broke loose and the mavens came back on TV

Next to me on the train going home to the suburbs is another guy stuck in a suit reading his paper, a normal-looking guy

Harvey has a special room in the basement that’s always lock… He keeps a safe there, some antiqu… and family memorabilia he fears midnight thieves might steal.

Our house has a garret I never went up to until I retire… Now I’m up there almost every day unless I have to stay in bed until another spell passes.

The longer I live the greater Mar… compared with those who have tried… The man had integrity, guts, ideas… It was heartbreaking in the Sixti… filled with hope for change in Ame…

She’s been making quilts for half a century and he’s been making poems that long as well and every now and then he brings a chocolate shake to her place

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

They were refugees, too, back in the Forties, settled in Chicago, learned English, some a lot, some a little,