A poor man comes to the door after the storm last winter and asks if he can have something to eat if he shovels the walk. You say forget about the snow.

Bill hates to go to parties but he loves to go to wakes. One of the advantages of being old, he says, is that there are fewer parties to go to but a lot more wakes. At parties he finds ...

Monsanto still has problems after the carnage caused by Agent Orange. People continue to decay. Monsanto’s Roundup

It used to bother me to see odd people leapfrog parking meters and shout every day is Halloween until

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

Little Nora and Grandpa Bill sit on swings in Grandma’s garden. A hummingbird arrives to sample the brilliant flowers at this buff… Grandpa Bill sees a teaching mome…

If a marriage doesn’t work out you get a divorce and look for someone else. If a poem doesn’t work out you put it in a folder and

Where I live the press says teen use of heroin is epidemic. I thought an epidemic was a widespread disease afflicting thousands caught in

“Screw the Vernal Equinox” is all Cootie Kelly ever says sitting triumphant with his foaming glass of Guinness on the last stool at Maggie’s

No one goes to the patio now except at night when Ann goes out to spread old bread and sunflower seed on the small table for birds

Inferno of a summer day Mother’s dozing Tommy, tiny, three, paring knife in hand tiptoes out, flops

Six months ago an old black couple moved into an old brick house on a block of old white people. A dither erupted over the fences

I take my wife to dinner at a fancy place for us to talk about money because stocks have a virus and we should move

Dither of blue jays bickering at the feeder. Doves eat well below Donal Mahoney