He asked and so I told him. The “cancer” poems stem from cancer in the family. Daughter’s terminal. Son’s a five-year survivor.

Married 60 years Fred and Daisy still are very different people. All day long they hide their differences to make

I found an old friend in a cardboard box in the basement where I left him forty years ago.

If the greatest of these is charit… then tell me again why it’s gauche if this young man in a booth at a bar

Every four years I vote and every four years for the last 40 years the same lady has signed me in

Early evening traffic’s rather heavy. Autos armadillo home along the Outer Drive as out of mouths of buildings

It’s not Clyde who sleeps in a different doorway every night to avoid the cops and it’s not Wayne who sleeps in the

It’s many miles from easy to the e… For some, the end is dawn. For ot… the nightfall of imbroglio because the end depends upon your ticket and every ticket’s punched one-way…

For years leprechauns lived under Pop’s fedora. They danced jigs on his head when he wore it and hid in his ears

He wants to do certain things he should have done before old age and illness reaped their harve… The doctor gives him days perhaps a week to breathe

Pastor Homer is a jealous man and Opal gives him fits through 40 years of marriage dancing, laughing kissing other men

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

In a yard abandoned this winter when the owner moved grass is growing this spring