Fuzzy wasn’t my cat although I fed him every morning at four o’clock for 10 years. He was my wife’s cat, loved to sit on her lap, be petted, jump down and rub his head against her feet....
Story in the paper this morning almost ruined breakfast. In a rural county far from where… the natives shoot stray dogs on si… In my city, an agency picks up str…
Ducktail haircut back in the Fifties made you a rebel without a cause with all your friends.
When Normal Norman takes his seat in Room 220 in Dumbach Hall to hear the eminent Dr. Engelhard… recite Beowulf again, Norman knows that he can suck
He slaughters his hamburger steak with a fork and a butter knife, massacres ringlets of onions again and again thumps catsup all over
Widow in a rocker pets her calico cat long strokes slowly. With the cat purring and the widow humming
At a school reunion festive and grand a young teacher makes a point with a retired teacher
When Bernie wakes at 6 a.m. there’s a piano on his chest and Erroll Garner’s playing “Mist… Sinatra’s on the headboard improvising lyrics
Seeing is believing smart people often tell me but no one ever told me believing is seeing
You have the back rent and come home from work and find everything in a mountain out on the lawn with the kids sitting on the curb crying
Back in 1957 kissing Carol Ann behind the barn in the middle of a windswept field
With a smile, the POTUS tangoes in Argentina while in Belgium and the rest of the World people try not to cry.
A little boy from the city down on the farm for a day wanders away to look at the sheep and finds a bull
You think it’s easy, embalming bodies in these nightmares I have every night, bodies a vulture
He looks for you until you find him while you wonder if he’s there Donal Mahoney