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
In the paper this morning a woman in the suburbs complained she has to eat too much steak too often because her husband
Next to me on the train going home to the suburbs is another guy stuck in a suit reading his paper, a normal-looking guy
Old Tim writes poetry now in his heaven of retirement. He’s had nice jobs over the years but swears retirement is better.
In America we say we get the government we deserve. That’s been true for the past eight years.
Melanie is from a small town and finds a job in a big city and meets Bill, the man she wants… marry so she calls Alice, her sist… older and married, for advice.
You can learn a lot, both true and false, in a dingy all-night diner where old men gather at a table in back
There are a lot of people like me neither rich nor poor, idling in the middle who have never wante… for anything in our lives. We were reared by parents
Black flag on the lawn falls in pieces from the sky. Starlings in command. Donal Mahoney
I saw Al once a month for 30 years, maybe more, doing business together. He retired to hunt bear in Alaska, hook Tarpon
A row of lilacs covered with a summer snow. Ten white butterflies.\ Donal Mahoney
She’s at a flower show miles away arranging roses in a vase very carefully.
You drive down the same country road every day at dawn and see through plumes of dust
The stench came first, the young man remembers. It was as if someone had grabbed him by the ankles, turned him upside down
An old guy on the subway with a lunch bucket tells a young lady with a brief case Bernie hasn’t got a chance.