In the fourth grade too many moons ago a reassuring teacher looked over my shoulder and said not to worry about
Third day on her honeymoon Sharon asks Butch what it’s like for a man before he gets married. A bricklayer by trade, and a man of few words,
Lightning bolts in childhood can scar the soul forever. They’re a satanic baptism when the minister’s your father, mother, brother, sister,
This morning I woke up early feelin’ good, feelin’ the way I felt 50 years ago, no aches, no pains, can’t wait to shower, hop on the El, go back to work,
Sarah makes sandwiches all day, piling meat and trimmings high on pillowy bread she spreads apart before her customers’ eyes. Hardworking men love her sandwiche…
Every time we have a big election in America, my wife of many years asks me if I’m going to vote in the primary although she knows I never do because one has to decl…
He lives in the attic of the brownstone down on the corner, been there for years. He’s seen twice a day
In the glow of the porch light one moth a final fandango nowhere to go
No more nudes in Playboy according to the anchor on the Nightly News. Playboy has declared nudes passé because
In 1920 he came on a boat from Ireland and found his way through Ellis Island. He found a room in a boarding house
Remember, a blind man can see things a sighted man can’t… So I’ll tell you about her and th… you can tell me whether I’m right. The first time a man meets her,
“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.
A homeless man hangs himself from a tree at night in the city to close out the year. At dawn a passerby uses
I saw Al once a month for 30 years, maybe more, doing business together. He retired to hunt bear in Alaska, hook Tarpon
First, we place the neck on the bl… and put the basket underneath the head and then make sure the bl… is sharp enough before we ask the… one more time just to be polite: