We’re equal we agree in the eyes of someone Fred says isn’t there and I say is and we agree

A little boy from the city down on the farm for a day wanders away to look at the sheep and finds a bull

Both of them had been to Korea. Both of them had made it back. One found a job

Two people so different can view the poor through different lenses and offer a solution but not the same solution

In that backyard three small trash cans had their place next to each other against the house.

It’s Rocky’s Diner but it’s Brenda’s counter, been that way for 10 years. Brenda has her regulars who want the Special of the Day.

There are Merry-Go-Rounds on Main Street all over America. They hide in storefronts offering payday loans to people who can’t borrow money anywhere else.

During the day there might be three cars parked at different places anywhere on the block. But at midnight there isn’t

Better take his wife to lunch after what he said yesterday. A slip of the tongue. But where to take her? The Chinese buffet?

When the president speaks from the podium and mentions the 20 children shot to death at Sandy Hook by a lunatic with a rifle,

He tried so hard to be everybody’s friend, agreed with everything we said. Some of us liked him, others were indifferent,

Carnage rolls across the sand amid the silence of imams Women raped,

A bitter Christmas morning after a foot of snow last night. I shovel the sidewalk and make my way to the bird feeder. Before I can fill it, the wrens

They are a certain way certain ladies are today no matter where they are summer, fall winter, spring even