Odd fellow who does odd jobs in the neighborhood four seasons of the year has disappeared in high summer and his customers are nervous.
They’re getting older, five brothers and sisters, all with degrees, jobs, families, nice homes, good lives, happier than most except when they must
You can learn a lot, both true and false, in a dingy all-night diner where old men gather at a table in back
We’re equal we agree in the eyes of someone Fred says isn’t there and I say is and we agree
Every day the same play. The moment I rise, the first act begins, the same plot
Old Yoshiko in Tokyo can’t sleep because her husband snores so she sits in her kimono and eats a few rice cakes with a few sips of saké.
For some nervous wrecks a pill or two might help. For others
“If you don’t like the gun, my dea… I can exchange it for a negligee b… I’ve given you many negligees. I think a gun’s important to have around the house
“Screw the Vernal Equinox” is all Cootie Kelly ever says sitting triumphant with his foaming glass of Guinness on the last stool at Maggie’s
This time Wilma is ready for the bastards jimmying her front door, coming back for more. The first time she was asleep,
If one could store them in the attic without stir and turn to other things, to picking fruit, perhaps, or seeding it, one could afford
If a marriage doesn’t work out you get a divorce and look for someone else. If a poem doesn’t work out you put it in a folder and
Aaron loves the show on television about antiques. Tonight they have a Grecian vase worth close to a million dollars. Aaron has stuff in the basement
What will she do with him? That is, if she’s elected. She’ll have to take him with her to the White House after keeping him in the doghouse.
Dubville used to be a quiet town, not that much was going on. The young would move to the city after high school… The elderly would stay because