It was an ancient city. All the young people left as soon as they could but the old remained in their mortgaged huts
The guillotine dropped between you and a friend over coffee and small talk. The first time it dropped it was someone who said
When Molly and Tim got married they spent hours talking about everything they had to get done. And indeed they got a lot done. Now their kids have families
You see things at the rest home you don’t expect to see. New veteran in his Korea cap is whipping everyone else in pool. He never has to bend over
Pete’s never needed anything from childhood on. His parents had it all and gave it to him so it’s hard for him to understand why
We worry so much because we’re nice people. We want to find a way to feed the poor house the poor
They laugh at him because he’s weak by their standards but they don’t realize they’ve signed a
Like the poor the sparrows we will always have with us, my neighbor lady tells me as she feeds the birds
On their 50th anniversary Sammy gave Dolly a necklace and told his darling wife that if they lived long enough one of them would wake
The old man crossing the street has a bad limp we try to ignore. No one wants to look
Other than death there’s no way to escape them unless you’re a hummingbird
Things reach a certain age, an age at which things don’t work the way they once did. The battery in your car,
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....
Granny watches nature in the city from her window after the nurse takes her tray away. She likes to watch the bird feeder grandson Ahmad hung for cardinals,
I will never forget him but I can’t remember his name it’s been so long ago. Maybe I never knew it. But I think of him on days