The hands on the atomic clock upstairs finally stopped spinning. As you know, my dear, the hands have been spinning for two weeks. This morning the clock stopped
He was predictable all those years going home after work doing odd jobs around the house
He’s not among the quick and not among the dead. He’s somewhere in between he tells anyone who stops his wheelchair in the halls
Another day at the zoo and Wally’s new job was to feed the ap… Old Stanley had fed the apes for 40 years and loved the job but told Wally he was retiring.
There are a lot of people like me neither rich nor poor, idling in the middle who have never wante… for anything in our lives. We were reared by parents
This black moth flew in the front door of the living room the other night and has been up
He wants to do certain things he should have done before old age and illness reaped their harve… The doctor gives him days perhaps a week to breathe
My wife likes to garden. She’s crazy about roses, lilies and daisies. She says I should get out in the garden and weed.
A friend in England rings me up and we talk about this and that. He asks if my president’s in touch with all that’s going on and I say he should be in touch, going to
I was out of control, spinning on the whirligig of youth, giddy to be caught in what Kerouac called “the whole mad swirl
In the fourth grade too many moons ago a reassuring teacher looked over my shoulder and said not to worry about
Someone has to cut the grass Molly tells Bill dozing off in his recliner too weary to cut it. For years a vet from Vietnam
Through the nursery glass Carlos Montero peeks at Consuela, his twelfth, in the arms of a nurs… Pink as a peony with brilliant black hair,
After Yeats and Heaney, you wonder when the new one will come galloping out of Dublin or perhaps from yet another farm
Things reach a certain age, an age at which things don’t work the way they once did. The battery in your car,