He tried so hard to be everybody’s friend, agreed with everything we said. Some of us liked him, others were indifferent,
On a clear day in the day room he will tell anyone he has had an askew life. When he was a small boy out for a Sunday walk
After all the tests and the doctor’s explanation she thinks of them not as 20 points of cancer but as 20 rusty nails
Smitty isn’t Schulte. He doesn’t drive a Cadillac and doesn’t hit his wife often any more. Schulte, on the other hand,
They were refugees, too, back in the Forties, settled in Chicago, learned English, some a lot, some a little,
They’re usually poor people, sometimes considered the flotsam of society, always in the way at the grocery store,
The longer I live the greater Mar… compared with those who have tried… The man had integrity, guts, ideas… It was heartbreaking in the Sixti… filled with hope for change in Ame…
The widow hires four men to rip out her lovely garden. She’s too old to weed it. All the roses will go to the young bride across
Thunder and lightning at first, as I understand it, and then the moon will split in half and disappear and the stars will go dark
Red, yellow, brown work well together in a portrait of society. Add black, no problem. But if we remove the red,
First leaves of autumn. Slow parachutes this morning almost at the curb. Donal Mahoney
Roscoe and two cousins rented a va… and drove to Mississippi for the f… of another cousin they grew up wit… It took six hours to get where three old men didn’t want to go
It’s your anniversary so you’re thinking steak but your wife wants ramen so you go to a nice place and order the fancy ramen
An incident in youth never meant to happen recorded on a pad to be read another time
He’s a citizen who has a problem with people walking toward him walking behind him walking next to him