Every four years I vote and every four years for the last 40 years the same lady has signed me in
The cur dog tethered to a stake across the road runs back and forth barking all day
They’re starlets Hollywood has yet to discover, two nice young ladies who assemble sandwiches at the Subway Shop Monday through Friday at noon.
In America we say we get the government we deserve. That’s been true for the past eight years.
When you’re a pharmacist you don’t ask customers how they’re doing. You know from the meds they pick up
I found an old friend in a cardboard box in the basement where I left him forty years ago.
Books covered in dust are stacked from floor to ceiling. Screens light up the house. Donal Mahoney
You won’t find poetry anywhere unless you bring some of it with y… said Joseph Joubert, a French writer whose day job was working for Napoleon.
A doctor by day Ralph spends his nights ordering tulip bulbs from Holland beautiful and rare
When she leaves the room when will she be back When she leaves the house how long will she be gone When she must go out of town
This Monarch butterfly dances from petal to petal red, yellow and orange sits for a while on each and then
She was just an old lady who lived next door. I’d wave and smile and give a nice hello but nothing more.
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…
It’s never what she says always how she says it and how she stands when she says it and what she says
In that backyard three small trash cans had their place next to each other against the house.