They’ve been married 50 years and never a sorry day, Wally likes to say. Melba’s been a great wife but she’s very sick and doctors sa…
This time Wilma is ready for the bastards jimmying her front door, coming back for more. The first time she was asleep,
Oliver Jones, now gray and grizzl… cut the Miller’s lawn for years.… a victim of Agent Orange, Oliver’… almost as old as the Millers, his… Recently he’s left ridges and tuft…
Years ago Rodney King, after his beating in LA, softly asked America, “People, can we all just get along? Can we stop
Dylann Roof defended himself in the sentencing phase of his tri… after he was convicted of killing nine people during a Bible study, the nine people who welcomed him
Outside, the still of crickets. Inside, petals of a cold sore foliate,
November’s lovely in the rain, she… from her rocker near the window to no one in particular although the butler’s waiting for her groce… having walked her Pekingese.
It tears the stomach out of Roy to see old folks shopping at an all-night grocery store ancient couples, on canes and walkers
When bread is this good a morsel will suffice and when wine
Jimmy and Billy, two young men in kindergarten, went home from school every day just before noon. They lived in a small town in Nebraska, in the middle of farm country. It was the 1950s...
Every time the phone rings Bill’s afraid the caller might say another childhood classmate has di… This will hit him hard because Bill knows he’s moseying along
It’s war plain and simple when I fill the feeder out in the sycamore with millet and niger
No more nudes in Playboy according to the anchor on the Nightly News. Playboy has declared nudes passé because
Every evening, up in my rooom, I try to finish a poem but Chicago is hot and it’s better outside,
When she leaves the room when will she be back When she leaves the house how long will she be gone When she must go out of town