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

Every day the same people at the same table at the rear of the cafeteria. The maiden, 35 at least, is gray at the temples,

A rainy Sunday and Pastor Smith is in his pulpit bellowing to the congregation, “I hope you understand

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’s just a flophouse but it’s all he can afford and now it’s come to this. If he buys food he can’t pay the rent

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

Bill’s a conservative upset that Meals on Wheels and Medicaid face possible cuts in America’s budget. He yells to colleagues

He doesn’t understand distressed j… Designer jeans with rents and tear… look like the rags he grew up in wearing other people’s discards. His mother got his jeans from a ch…

I died from a rattlesnake bite and found myself in line with other zombies in front of a bank of elevators, the doors opening and closing as if by metronome.

When I was eight I jumped off a roof as if I had a parachute and broke a leg. He was there when I landed,

In a very crowded bar Fred decides he must tell this fellow something important so he whispers

Great Dane out walking day after the funeral small widow next door Donal Mahoney

Red, yellow, brown work well together in a portrait of society. Add black, no problem. But if we remove the red,

We’re upset when vandals desecrate a cemetery and disrespect the dead not so much when doctors vandalize the womb