This morning I woke up early feelin’ good, feelin’ the way I felt 50 years ago, no aches, no pains, can’t wait to shower, hop on the El, go back to work,

The call comes in to the police station. It’s a small town and the voice at the library says “He’s at it again.”

When Martha gets home from cooking class this afternoon, Martin will be gone after 30 years of marriage. Martha won’t know why

A group of older men gather once a week to talk about life after a heart attack. Old Len chews tobacco still and tells jokes in a voice so low

You can learn a lot, both true and false, in a dingy all-night diner where old men gather at a table in back

Pete reads a story about an artist who never sold a painting until he… and then sold one for a million do… Finding the artist on the internet… his work is just odd shapes in bri…

Sending out an address change to a friend I haven’t seen in 50 years, I say my wife and I are moving someplace new next month

If I knew I’d live forever I’d never send a poem out. No poem ever comes with ten fingers and ten toes so I’d keep revising, add

Walking very slowly, ancient Wall… right behind his ancient Molly who… stepping down the garden path, her first time out in weeks, wobbly still on her new knee.

She’s been making quilts for half a century and he’s been making poems that long as well and every now and then he brings a chocolate shake to her place

Anyone might have what you need if she’s choice in your eye. She can be big or small provided she has

His wife takes him to dinner as she always does on his birthday wearing bright red lipstick, a color she detests but he likes.

Black lives matter in different ways to different people in the American rainbow especially bus companies

The uncommon is common in America today. Not that there’s anything wrong with that, Seinfeld