Perhaps there should be a hard rock band called myasthenia gravis. A rare disease for which there is no cure, MG doesn’t kill anyone right away but unmanaged it’s hard to live with. In ...
It’s a disgusting thing but Paddy Gilhooley, who knew better as a child, had begun farting in church very early in life. He started in grammar school, many decades ago, long before the ...
Someone smart told me yesterday you never really know the meaning of a word until
Jane told Tarzan toodle-oo and moved away to Arizona because although it’s hot out ther… it’s a dry heat and not the swamp of heat she found herself panting
Trumpelstiltskin is a fairy tale not written by the Brothers Grimm… It’s written every day by Fox and… America hears it every hour and half the nation loves it
We’re twins. We’ve been together from the start. You’re the doctor. You know that.
Beneath the bowling-alley bar marquee the rain tonight hammers off the concrete.
Old Tim writes poetry now in his heaven of retirement. He’s had nice jobs over the years but swears retirement is better.
Summer evenings after the news at 6 p.m. the Widow Murphy comes out of her tiny bungalow and sits on her front porch swing
A drunk on the subway tells another drunk something a bartender told him. He says if the rich guy wins, it will be the first time
In two more hours I’ll have to sh… shave and coffee-prop my lids and otherwise prepare for day. It’… and now the barkeep, Griggs, is rushing me, the first
Every day the same play. The moment I rise, the first act begins, the same plot
A mountain man is Fillmore but there are no mountains where Fillmore lives deep in a hollow. He’s never had a job
Things reach a certain age, an age at which things don’t work the way they once did. The battery in your car,
An hour a day, sometimes more, I chipped away with mallet and chisel on a block of marble
