When ancient Elmer was young and dashing and on the prowl, he would wait for a phone call about love or anger from someone important to him at the time. Over the years more than a few w...

Ruth’s at an age where she’s happy to sit in the sun under a patio umbrella and watch a line of ants

We’re troubled by the very rich we see only on TV and worry about the poor who sleep at night in doorways and in parks, the trul… with little more than the clothes…

Elmer’s an old stag now shedding antlers snorting among the trees but sometimes Martha after her shower

This time Wilma is ready for the bastards jimmying her front door, coming back for more. The first time she was asleep,

Lamentations loud amid the tears following Orlando. Another call to take guns from people

Trumpelstiltskin is a fairy tale not written by the Brothers Grimm… It’s written every day by Fox and… America hears it every hour and half the nation loves it

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

So this Mick on the next stool, who’s as serious as Yeats but looks like Wilde, stares at me, with eyes crossed,

He’s a chef today but Raj Patel was once a swami in another life and a mongoose twice in other lives as well. All this occurred in Bangalore

She lives by a lake. After a heavy snow she looks out the window and sees black swans in a long, straight line

If I knew I’d live forever I’d never send a poem out. No poem ever comes with ten fingers and ten toes so I’d keep revising, add

It’s midnight and I’m too tired to stroll in my Wall Street garden to check on the nightlife among the flowers