She’s at a flower show miles away arranging roses in a vase very carefully.
Herb remembers when he was young he’d go to the doctor and complain about aches and pains and sniffles… Now he’s up in years and still goes to the doctor but never
If I hadn’t died, I’d still be bouncing along in that Greyhound bus through the mountains swigging a Coke.
Time’s a jet plane when you’re young. You go to school get a good job marry someone nice
Bella takes two big pills every morning followed by one each of another three.
An imam should say eternity lasts too long to sit by the fire Donal Mahoney
He tried so hard to be everybody’s friend, agreed with everything we said. Some of us liked him, others were indifferent,
I turn the porch light on because it’s dark when I go out to find the morning paper. It’s still dark when I start back but when I’m on the porch I reach
Some things you can’t undo. A remark, perhaps, you can retract or try to with an explanation. But a certain look can burn forever in the mind
Ten years later he still mourns the death of his friend, Bill, such a smart man he could talk to
The alarm clock screams at 5 a.m. and I get up to attend a funeral 50 miles away, a long drive back to a corner of Chicago once rife with corned beef and cabbage but
Walt told the cops later his moods come and go like crows on the high wire above his art studio. They land in a swoop,
Her corded belt python tight around a tiny waist makes her blooms bigger brighter as they unfold
Phone rings. Wilbur answers it. “This is Grace. Is Thelma there?… “No,” says Wilbur. “She’s out won… “You mean wandering about?” ‘No, she used to wander about. No…
She was just an old lady who lived next door. I’d wave and smile and give a nice hello but nothing more.