Old Sol hires young Abdul, a refugee, to cut his grass and we… Saul tells his neighbor Old Paddy young Abdul does a good job and has a wife and three kids

I don’t see her often since she died but when I do it’s eerie over there at dawn or dusk.

I take my wife to dinner at a fancy place for us to talk about money because stocks have a virus and we should move

Sometimes an egg comes out of a chicken Sometimes a poem comes out of a title Sometimes a chicken

White privilege it’s called and re… I learned its name although I’ve… white as a sheet for decades. Like breathing and eating I take white privilege for granted.

It’s not good when two disturbed p… with little in common disagree by… on something important. Tone and content can get raucous and make matters worse because eac…

Mae mailed Christmas cards today, fewer again this year because death has made her address book a skeleton. She has a son in Russia

Leaves on a Japanese Maple dance auburn in the wind remind me of that mother crossing Michigan Avenue before the light changes

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

Like that broad in an apricot bra hanging over the sill of her tenement window, the sun is over me now, its nectar laughing and falling.

Dubville used to be a quiet town, not that much was going on. The young would move to the city after high school… The elderly would stay because

If the goal of business is to make a profit and it is—and if the goal of government is to take care of people

When he was just a boy, they took him to the dump to scavenge, bits of metal, any food that might be eaten. When he became a man,

It was the first time that senators had been asked to go home and address parent-teacher meetings at all the middle schools in their states. Each had been given a sheet of talking point...

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