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This senior citizen whose face is Rushmore still squats with pigeons on the steps of the Rogers Park Masonic Templ… She wears a shawl this snowy day
After the TV mavens had their say the gnomes crept out of their cave… spoke and returned to their caves. Thunder struck, hell broke loose and the mavens came back on TV
This brilliant winter morning find… waves of snow on every lawn and red graffiti dripping from the walls of Temple Mizpah
The hands on the atomic clock upstairs finally stopped spinning. As you know, my dear, the hands have been spinning for two weeks. This morning the clock stopped
Old barber shop in a neighborhood never posh now poor. A single chair with an ancient barber
I was very small the day they bombed Pearl Harbor but I remember my mother dashing around the kitchen saying nothing to me
Pete’s never needed anything from childhood on. His parents had it all and gave it to him so it’s hard for him to understand why
In St. Louis young blacks carry guns like cell phones and use them often to shoot each other, as we read in the daily paper
Lamentations loud amid the tears following Orlando. Another call to take guns from people
Ten years ago, when they were tykes just in their 70s, Melvin used to tell Emma eat your Wheaties
Robin on the lawn. Three hops and stops to listen. Somewhere must be spring. Donal Mahoney
You love your grandson, this blue bundle in your arms. There’s no doubt about that. He has peaches for cheeks and the sky’s in his eyes
The others, of course, are more ra… but less apt to show it. Whenever I strike, I never romp o… I stand with the wrist that I’ve… from the lady locked in my teeth
A tragedy happened to Willie and Millie after years of marriage… All their kids were doing well and had nice families of their own but tragedy struck one dawn before
The mug of tea I drank at dawn, the tea that drove me to the train needs a refill.
