There was a young puppy named Gus Who charmed and amused all of us. While on a retractable leash He darted all over. Yeesh! It made Meg and John want to cuss…
As I was growing up I envied other kids who had what I thought were “normal” middle names: James, Thomas, and
Some grade school student dropped… Fortunately, the useful life of th… I’m a long way past grammar school… So I picked up the discarded penc… Many thanks to you, unknown grade…
Abraham Lincoln was our first poe… who really knew how to turn a phra… but the best one of all has to do… “We can complain that rose bushes… or we can celebrate that thorn bus…
12 score and 8 years ago Our forefathers brought forth on t… a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition t… all men are created equal, and
I used to hate poetry back in high school because I could never understand any of it and I didn’t want my teachers
Your poetry book from 1946 was recently acquired by me at a book fair in Chicago. It appears to have been lightly us… during its first go-round
“Obrigado” is All the Portuguese I know But it is enough
Life keeps on going taking many twists and turns until it’s over
Trump’s angry mob Took a raised fist From Missouri’s junior senator Much more seriously Than he could ever imagine.
His football team wore gold and bl… For the city that makes our steel Success was the fruit of their lab… Four Super Bowl trophies are real
Tracy Chapman wrote a song late i… which deserves to endure forever,… and a plaintive story about the di… that Life can sometimes bring. It received lots of airplay in the…
Coffee and a crossword now The farmers market later College football on TV after that How could Sunday ever top that?
When I was there ten weeks ago Portugal seemed most charming. But today the fires raging there Are utterly alarming. Then I witnessed only blue
Friday the 13th Is it a day for bad luck? We’ll know soon enough!
