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Three are known by name, Michael, Gabriel, and Raphael, but there are a zillion angels, pure spirits who have no wings like those we draw on Cherubim,
It’s not good when two disturbed p… with little in common disagree by… on something important. Tone and content can get raucous and make matters worse because eac…
I bring a milkshake every other we… to an old man in a nursing home, a refugee from Germany who paid me 50 cents to cut his grass when I w… a kid in Chicago after WWII.
Sheep are by a goat while cattle are like swine, prodded, ye… cattle go by hammer while swine are by the hind leg hung then swung about to spigot.
Next to me on the train going home to the suburbs is another guy stuck in a suit reading his paper, a normal-looking guy
This senior citizen whose face is Rushmore still squats with pigeons on the steps of the Rogers Park Masonic Templ… She wears a shawl this snowy day
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.
He remembers loving her lost in an orchard peaches, pears, apricots falling on his head every day
He was predictable all those years going home after work doing odd jobs around the house
It started with a smirk she managed to arrest. It returned seconds later in a sneer she pulled back but then it appeared again
America has no caste system but America has castes. Like every other nation America has its rich and poor with everyone else sardined
My wife’s upset because I won’t answer the phone in the middle of the night even though the phone’s on my side of the bed.
In the woods soft snow falls on the first day of spring. Two daffodils laugh. Donal Mahoney
You love your grandson, this blue bundle in your arms. There’s no doubt about that. He has peaches for cheeks and the sky’s in his eyes
Jimmy was visiting his father when Mr. Crenshaw called to say Mrs. Bittles had died the night before of a sudden heart attack.
