My wife’s amazed when I station myself at the computer writing this or that despite a hound dog
Fred has been working with an agency called Hunters for the Hungry for five years. During that time, his food bank has received thousands of pounds of venison to feed the poor. This yea...
Puerto Rican girl thin, thin, let street lights pour bourbon on your hair, anise on your skin.
There are poems everywhere but you have to find them, a teacher told my class long ago. I was a kid sitting at a desk, cowlicks sprouting from my scalp,
Every day the same people at the same table at the rear of the cafeteria. The maiden, 35 at least, is gray at the temples,
Trumpelstiltskin is a fairy tale not written by the Brothers Grimm… It’s written every day by Fox and… America hears it every hour and half the nation loves it
When Bill goes home to the church of his youth he finds things are different. They don’t sing “Amazing Grace” the way they did when he was
Fred prefers a mouse connected by a wire to his keyboard. Walt prefers a mouse that’s portable, able
You take care now, Harold, and don’t slip on the ice looking for a good bookstore on the streets of Chicago. Print is dead, Harold,
My wife likes to garden. She’s crazy about roses, lilies and daisies. She says I should get out in the garden and weed.
Paul’s not a veteran of Vietnam but he goes there in his dreams to watch his brother Tim walk in hazy streams sprayed with Agent Orange before he
No youngster himself, Fred often… “There are always preludes to hell… For Fred one of those preludes is… the things in life Fred can’t fix.… Another prelude is paying the trad…
You have the back rent and come home from work and find everything in a mountain out on the lawn with the kids sitting on the curb crying
Ducktail haircut back in the Fifties made you a rebel without a cause with all your friends.
Strapped to his bed in the nursing home, he tells every nurse who comes in and tightens his straps