twenty-four houses on the same block everyone inside milling about one lost a job

Holiday Parties Millie comes home bawling from another holiday party and Willie asks what’s the problem. Millie says her friends are cheese…

In America we say we get the government we deserve. That’s been true for the past eight years.

Dad hit me only once, an uppercut to the solar plexus. It nearly lifted me off my feet. I was 17 then and already fairly tall, 6’1.” He was 48 and of medium height, 5’8,” a fireplug who...

Every time the phone rings Bill’s afraid the caller might say another childhood classmate has di… This will hit him hard because Bill knows he’s moseying along

You find old poems in the attic in a box with the Remington Rand you wrote them on in the Sixties before computers were born. They were published then in little

On holidays I hear from Paul, who’s 80 if a day, who may have won his war on poverty without help from his friends. He won’t accept a cent.

They’re in the kitchen, drinking coffee, the kids, in their fifties now, figuring out what to do about Dad who’s

They were always close Mom and Faye No father around Mom painted flowers Faye planted them

America has no caste system but America has castes. Like every other nation America has its rich and poor with everyone else sardined

I’m on my way to Larry’s Place, a food pantry in the city. I park a block away because parking in front of Larry’s isn’t wise even if one drives

Paddy Dineen enjoyed good health till his heart gave out while filling his cart in a health food store.

Dreams I can’t remember cause a conflagration fire hoses can’t put out. Dreams I can recall arrive in technicolor.