You find old poems in the attic in a box with the Remington Rand you wrote them on in the Sixties before computers were born. They were published then in little
Years ago they came from many plac… to study writing at a university in the middle of America surrounded by lush corn fields. They worked hard, became friends,
He lives in the attic of the brownstone down on the corner, been there for years. He’s seen twice a day
Couples age and a sign of age is w… the husband hires someone to shove… and the wife hires a cleaning lady… Sometimes the wife doesn’t like th… and the husband doesn’t like the c…
We’ve moved my wife and I from home to the last place we’ll ever live and she wants to know why
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.
It tears the stomach out of Roy to see old folks shopping at an all-night grocery store ancient couples, on canes and walkers
You were a little older than three the day your father taught you how to pee, standing up. Your father trumpeted your triumph and your mother laughed in the kit…
He’s a chef today but Raj Patel was once a swami in another life and a mongoose twice in other lives as well. All this occurred in Bangalore
I understand what you mean when you say you’re alone and hope someone rings your bell day or night but that’s not the case with me.
The ancient man with raspberry hives on his cheeks since childhood will live alone
If America is lucky it might still happen. That lawsuit about the university accused of bilking students might go to trial and the accused
After Yeats and Heaney, you wonder when the new one will come galloping out of Dublin or perhaps from yet another farm
If the poor we will always have with us, then the rich we will have with us as well. Our system gives birth to both. Greed is part of man’s nature,
Fred’s a reasonable man something he takes pride in. Just the other night before he threw a dish against the wall while