You had to have a Schwinn to lead this pack of boys riding bikes full speed baking under the Chicago sun laughing after senior year

I’m amazed at the difference between my friend and me. His response to life is so different from mine. I live deep in the city

I was out of control, spinning on the whirligig of youth, giddy to be caught in what Kerouac called “the whole mad swirl

Redbud and dogwood have blossomed above the tulips and jonquils wher… Alice’s house used to be. A possum and raccoon nose around where the garage was before the to…

It’s an old clock hanging on a wall in a small room on the third floor. We go up there

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

Inseparable they are, landing one after another on the ground under the bird feeder two mourning doves

Long article in the paper this morning stops Tim from gobbling his bacon and eggs. Bears are starving in the woods. Too many cubs, too little food.

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

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

America has no caste system but America has castes. Like every other nation America has its rich and poor with everyone else sardined

If the poor we will always have with us, then the rich we will have with us as well. Our system gives birth to both. Greed is part of man’s nature,

Old lady on a park bench hunkered down babushka and shawl snow and wind dancing everywhere

Yours is the first email I opened… I appreciate your suggested revisi… to send the work back once I’ve ma… I can tell you spent a lot of time… I’m afraid, however, that I can’t…