No red kettles and bells this December outside the stores at the mall in our suburbs this year. They irritate shoppers,
Simply because anchors have little to say means they’ll keep saying it till others believe. This is America.
Every evening, up in my rooom, I try to finish a poem but Chicago is hot and it’s better outside,
Two men tall, one from here and one from there, in raincoats at a bus stop,
A neighbor lady I hadn’t seen in a year I heard was bedridden. Her former husband dropped by, asked if I’d to take in her trash… when I brought in my own.
Old Sam on his deathbed says he’d rewrite his life if he could. He’d do so many things differently… be nice to all his wives if he cou… but luckily they had died before h…
Handsome is as handsome does, Jeanie always said, when Donald was away on business.
The blind artist paints life as he wants it to be a tranquil sky a big sun smiling everyone laughing.
Three are known by name, Michael, Gabriel, and Raphael, but there are a zillion angels, pure spirits who have no wings like those we draw on Cherubim,
In the woods soft snow falls on the first day of spring. Two daffodils laugh. Donal Mahoney
A woman was seated next to me as we waited for the debate to sta… The candidates were late taking th… She said she shouldn’t have come because she couldn’t vote for eith…
Fred visits Bill every month at the facility he’s been in for year… Age and booze brought Bill there. He’s still strapped to his bed so he can’t go wandering again
They laugh at him because he’s weak by their standards but they don’t realize they’ve signed a
On weekday mornings on a quiet corner three moms with small sons and daughters wait for a school bus
There’s nothing wrong with you. We both know this is true but there’s something wrong with m… and you know what that is. It’s the elephant in the room