Used to be she’d tell him what to get at the grocery store and he always brought it back. Now she makes a list.
“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
An old guy on the subway with a lunch bucket tells a young lady with a brief case Bernie hasn’t got a chance.
Black lives matter in different ways to different people in the American rainbow especially bus companies
Dither of blue jays bickering at the feeder. Doves eat well below Donal Mahoney
I don’t see her often since she died but when I do it’s eerie over there at dawn or dusk.
Walking in the forest as morning comes I hear piccolos of wrens and robins offer hymns to God
Fred brought his old comic books and some hard candy to a food pant… and didn’t think much about it. Just a different kind of donation. Maybe somebody would want them.
Jim met an old friend from college days long after both retired. They were classmates on the beautiful campus,
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.
A long time ago you bothered him somehow. Since then he has bothered you back. You don’t know how or
I look in the mirror and I’m not… Where did I go? I don’t know so I look around and see my wife with the dogs and kids. Not one of them sees me.
Herb’s a middle-age son with a big family and lots of pressure. Too busy to care for Mom and Pop so he drives to Shady Lane to see if he thinks they might like the p…
An old friend lost an old friend the other day. Jim said they were both getting up in years and he just happened to outlast Herman. Jim was black and Herman was white but that had never...
The soup kitchen opens an hour late. The rain finally stops and the hungry file in. They’ve had a long wait.