America has two kinds of migrants, those with money and those with hope, a farmer’s wife told me the day I stopped to buy some eggs.
She lives by a lake. After a heavy snow she looks out the window and sees black swans in a long, straight line
They’re starlets Hollywood has yet to discover, two nice young ladies who assemble sandwiches at the Subway Shop Monday through Friday at noon.
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
A homeless man hangs himself from a tree at night in the city to close out the year. At dawn a passerby uses
An hour before dawn the paper is out on the lawn white in the moonlight a trumpet dozing after a long night in a jazz bar
A little boy from the city down on the farm for a day wanders away to look at the sheep and finds a bull
America has no caste system but America has castes. Like every other nation America has its rich and poor with everyone else sardined
Raul is a kind man who plays marimba in a salsa band at LA clubs late into the night. Some afternoons he plays
The teacher tells the third grade the order of the seasons cannot be changed. Summer, fall, winter, spring arrive in order, then start over.
The old poet has agreed to read his poems in Hanley Hall if a student will push his wheelchair on stage. Agreed. And students must agree not to ask
When bread is this good a morsel will suffice and when wine
The nice thing about crossword puz… as an obsession, Phil tells Bill,… keep you away from other obsession… that might engage your attention a… benefit no one. For example
Someone you respect does something that sticks in your craw like a fish bone dining in a crab shack. You try to cough it up
Jack Bogan died last week, the la… of the Whippets, a garage band big in a small way back in the Sixties… The Whippets had a following in Chicago and its suburbs.