Should she write about the wonders of nature and say it’s okay to lie on the beach forever without any sunscreen
It’s war plain and simple when I fill the feeder out in the sycamore with millet and niger
Every four years I vote and every four years for the last 40 years the same lady has signed me in
Solid middle class he is always has been always will be until tomorrow on the highway
Elmo has spent 40 years cutting hair in a little shop in a country town along the Mississippi. Vegetables and meat
If I knew I’d live forever I’d never send a poem out. No poem ever comes with ten fingers and ten toes so I’d keep revising, add
Harvey at 80 is losing his hearing. He can’t hear his wife when she talks, a symphony lost.
It was stupid of Walt not to show it to Joan before they got married but he was too shy. He had no idea
In a very crowded bar Fred decides he must tell this fellow something important so he whispers
We have one of those medical plans… my wife and I. The co-pays let us see a doctor, have a procedure, pay for medications. Can’t remembe… ever paying full price. Especially
Six months ago an old black couple moved into an old brick house on a block of old white people. A dither erupted over the fences
He slaughters his hamburger steak with a fork and a butter knife, massacres ringlets of onions again and again thumps catsup all over
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
Jesse was a common man he never made a lot of money he had a troubled marriage. His wife left him for another man he never saw his kids again.
“Damn the vernal equinox! Full speed ahead!” is all that Cootie Murphy would ever say when he sat on the last stool at the end of the bar in The Stag & Doe Inn. He wouldn’t say it very ...