A good reason to get married, Tim told me before he died, is you need a driver to take you home from a colonoscopy. When cancer runs in the family
He’s a citizen who has a problem with people walking toward him walking behind him walking next to him
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
Herb remembers when he was young he’d go to the doctor and complain about aches and pains and sniffles… Now he’s up in years and still goes to the doctor but never
It started with a smirk she managed to arrest. It returned seconds later in a sneer she pulled back but then it appeared again
Elmer’s an old stag now shedding antlers snorting among the trees but sometimes Martha after her shower
A row of lilacs covered with a summer snow. Ten white butterflies. Donal Mahoney
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
It was her birthday. She was only five the dawn we went out to look at roses in Grandma’s garden
No youngster himself, Fred often… “There are always preludes to hell… For Fred one of those preludes is… the things in life Fred can’t fix.… Another prelude is paying the trad…
It doesn’t matter who wins. Life will go on as it has in previous years when others have won and have taken charge.
In a storefront laundry on North Clark Street brown draperies release this quiet man who has my shirts.
Fancy spam emails I don’t mind nor the ones cobbled in broken English from someone who says he’s with a bank overseas
Wally and Stan neighbors on the same block for 30 years never had a problem until Wally asked Stan over
twenty-four houses on the same block everyone inside milling about one lost a job