It’s not the beach. It’s a lake of fire, if it’s there. That lake we heard about in
Herb’s wife says the grass needs cutting and Herb agrees. She says the neighbors are upset he hasn’t cut it for the last five weeks.
If you’ve seen a cockatoo up close in a cage or at a zoo you may have noticed how a cockatoo looks at you.
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.
Sometimes it helps to learn a relative has died a close relative you haven’t seen in years and didn’t plan to see again because
Harry and Grace had a carousel of marriage while it lasted. There were arguments galore and children by the score or so the neighbors thought
Like that broad in an apricot bra hanging over the sill of her tenement window, the sun is over me now, its nectar laughing and falling.
In 1962 my father toiled in Quinc… two weeks, no more, and saw no blacks except for two young ladies who moved like swans
A drunk on the subway tells another drunk something a bartender told him. He says if the rich guy wins, it will be the first time
A long time ago you bothered him somehow. Since then he has bothered you back. You don’t know how or
No red kettles and bells this December outside the stores at the mall in our suburbs this year. They irritate shoppers,
I saw Al once a month for 30 years, maybe more, doing business together. He retired to hunt bear in Alaska, hook Tarpon
Hearts are stopping faster than usual among people I know and people I don’t married to other people
Far away and long ago stuff happened in Gramps’ life that he’d like to forget but he can’t, even though he can’t always remember what he had for breakfast, lunch or dinner. But anything...
“Damn the vernal equinox! Full speed ahead!” is all that Cootie Murphy would ever say when he sat on the last stool at the end of the bar in The Stag & Doe Inn. He wouldn’t say it very ...