I lived in the attic back then, and late those evenings I had to s… and couldn’t afford to go drinking I’d run down to the deli and buy bagels and smoked lox.
Every evening, up in my rooom, I try to finish a poem but Chicago is hot and it’s better outside,
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.
During the day there might be three cars parked at different places anywhere on the block. But at midnight there isn’t
In a very crowded bar Fred decides he must tell this fellow something important so he whispers
Only the blind man with his leader dog and tapping cane stops when the homeless man standing near the curb
Standing in line behind a father and his little boy waiting to reach the register
Willie has mixed emotions about homeless Syrians coming to America but his wife Millie says we should take them in.
They’ve been married 50 years and never a sorry day, Wally likes to say. Melba’s been a great wife but she’s very sick and doctors sa…
Ten years later he still mourns the death of his friend, Bill, such a smart man he could talk to
Last night my recliner broke. I used the lever to lean back and I went way back, almost heels over head. A shock. I hate going to the recliner store
Things reach a certain age, an age at which things don’t work the way they once did. The battery in your car,
Midnight in San Francisco. Yoshiko is 93 and she can’t sleep so she sits in her recliner and nibbles on a rice cake,
Praise for Him coming from us is like the bark of a terrier at the foot of his master
There’s a glorious sound system no… in the restored train depot where… from all over the nation once took… train to Camp Breckinridge before taking a plane to Korea.