Time’s a jet plane when you’re young. You go to school get a good job marry someone nice
Puerto Rican girl thin, thin, let street lights pour bourbon on your hair, anise on your skin.
They had things in common, Paul and June, at an age when most boys and girls don’t and maybe that’s why they were the only couple in sixth grade dating, if you can call it that. This wa...
They’re the oldest couple my wife and I know and we’re no pups either. Peter out for a walk leans on his cane often
After Saturday tennis I came home took a nap and woke up dizzy had trouble walking. My balance was off so I went to bed and slept 20 hours
A doctor by day Ralph spends his nights ordering tulip bulbs from Holland beautiful and rare
This time Wilma is ready for the bastards jimmying her front door, coming back for more. The first time she was asleep,
I know very little about computers but I use one for basic needs. Poems, stories, not much more. Like some nice women I’ve known, I’ve discovered computers
It was stupid of Walt not to show it to Joan before they got married but he was too shy. He had no idea
The police have announced the arrest of an ecumenical fellow who in less than two weeks in the middle of the night set fir… to seven churches in St. Louis.
You drive down the same country road every day at dawn and see through plumes of dust
Six men were sitting at the table in the Day Room, as they call it, at the Whitehall Rest Home. They were playing poker and they had a newcomer in their midst. It was Bill, a retired fa...
Some say none. Others say one. Some say three in one and then say one of the three
Sarah makes sandwiches all day, piling meat and trimmings high on pillowy bread she spreads apart before her customers’ eyes. Hardworking men love her sandwiche…
When the president speaks from the podium and mentions the 20 children shot to death at Sandy Hook by a lunatic with a rifle,