Wally and Stan neighbors on the same block for 30 years never had a problem until Wally asked Stan over

The tale’s a parable and it scares Bill more than any creepy clown hiding behind a tree

The amount in every paycheck has a period in it. Those who get a paycheck every week dream about seeing a comma three spaces in front of the perio…

Underneath the feeder black juncos write hieroglyphics in the snow. Two cardinals arrive In a flash of red. They add

First, we place the neck on the bl… and put the basket underneath the head and then make sure the bl… is sharp enough before we ask the… one more time just to be polite:

I told my wife the other night when she came back to bed my feet were cold so now’s the time for me to tell her not to bury me or burn me

After all the tests and the doctor’s explanation she thinks of them not as 20 points of cancer but as 20 rusty nails

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,

No Supper for a Year My wife looks out the kitchen wind… and tells me the starlings are bac… the same big flock as yesterday strolling around our yard

White privilege it’s called and re… I learned its name although I’ve… white as a sheet for decades. Like breathing and eating I take white privilege for granted.

When I was in grammar school I knew it was Wednesday when I looked out the window and saw across the street three trash cans at the curb

Vacillating Benny, an ancient che… now retired from Monsanto, must de… if a poem his friend Ron has sent… is good enough for his hobby journ… Benny finally decides to let the p…

Our house has a garret I never went up to until I retire… Now I’m up there almost every day unless I have to stay in bed until another spell passes.

I take my wife to dinner at a fancy place for us to talk about money because stocks have a virus and we should move