I started reading the paper early in grammar school to find the sports scores. It was fun for a child hoping to play

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

If I owned a magazine I’d publish folks who agree with me as long as they remained abstract,

Like the poor the sparrows we will always have with us, my neighbor lady tells me as she feeds the birds

She could sing, dance, and act but picking a man was a problem. She didn’t complain or explain just worked hard for the money, an Unsinkable Molly Brown.

Take it from Martin, if you live in an old house, as much as you love it, bad things happen Despite maintenance,

Simply because anchors have little to say means they’ll keep saying it till others believe. This is America.

We’re going dancing, my wife and… to a Charity Ball high in the sky… Glenn Miller’s band has been play… since 1944, the year his plane got… over the English Channel.

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

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

Where I live the press says teen use of heroin is epidemic. I thought an epidemic was a widespread disease afflicting thousands caught in

These are old people retired and driving slowly from small apartments in economy cars getting out on canes

Sagebrush on Broadway a Big Mac wrapper tumbles softly down the street Donal Mahoney

An hour a day, sometimes more, I chipped away with mallet and chisel on a block of marble

He remembers loving her lost in an orchard peaches, pears, apricots falling on his head every day