They had things in common, Paul and June, at an age when most boys and girls don’t and maybe that’s why they were the only couple in sixth grade dating, if you can call it that. This wa...
Ten years ago, when they were tykes just in their 70s, Melvin used to tell Emma eat your Wheaties
An old guy on the subway with a lunch bucket tells a young lady with a brief case Bernie hasn’t got a chance.
I was warm and toasty, curled up, napping in amniotic fluid, without a worry when suddenly
Took the wife to a pancake house the other day. National franchise good food
They’re the oldest couple my wife and I know and we’re no pups either. Peter out for a walk leans on his cane often
When Homer stubs his toe or bumps his elbow, the pain is always piercing but Homer’s a pious man so swearing isn’t for him.
He remembers loving her lost in an orchard peaches, pears, apricots falling on his head every day
An imam should say eternity lasts too long to sit by the fire Donal Mahoney
In a yard abandoned this winter when the owner moved grass is growing this spring
An hour a day, sometimes more, I chipped away with mallet and chisel on a block of marble
We write the stories of our lives between the bookends of birth and death They stay on the shelf
It’s not the same as seeing the po… in Bangladesh on PBS and hearing Gwen or Judy tell us about them b… the poor in Bangladesh scream in s… brown and gaunt and hollow-eyed.
I lived in the attic back then, and late those evenings I had to s… and couldn’t afford to go drinking I’d run down to the deli and buy bagels and smoked lox.
There’s a football field between u… I’m in one of the end zones bellow… and you’re in the other one bawlin… the cliffs of your cheekbones streaked with mascara.