If a marriage doesn’t work out you get a divorce and look for someone else. If a poem doesn’t work out you put it in a folder and

A friend in England rings me up and we talk about this and that. He asks if my president’s in touch with all that’s going on and I say he should be in touch, going to

I saw Al once a month for 30 years, maybe more, doing business together. He retired to hunt bear in Alaska, hook Tarpon

It’s a matter of beans, says Rosie, 79, legally blind, her fingers dancing across a Bible in braille, when a reporter asks her about

Snow on Christmas Day. As I walk out with bird seed birds cry Santa’s here. Donal Mahoney

It’s your anniversary so you’re thinking steak but your wife wants ramen so you go to a nice place and order the fancy ramen

A poor man comes to the door after the storm last winter and asks if he can have something to eat if he shovels the walk. You say forget about the snow.

Liberal or conservative the questionnaire asks about migrants. Fred’s in the middle. Asked about The Wall

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

Woman in a window brushing long hair madly screams at a little boy down in the street licking an ice cream cone

Vacillating Benny, an ancient che… now retired from Monsanto, must de… if a poem his friend Ron has sent… is good enough for his hobby journ… Benny finally decides to let the p…

An imam should say eternity lasts too long to sit by the fire Donal Mahoney

I turn on the news to see who won the game last night but first the scores from hot spots in the city. Two people are killed

It used to bother me to see odd people leapfrog parking meters and shout every day is Halloween until

If I hadn’t died, I’d still be bouncing along in that Greyhound bus through the mountains swigging a Coke.