When ancient Elmer was young and dashing and on the prowl, he would wait for a phone call about love or anger from someone important to him at the time. Over the years more than a few w...
No more nudes in Playboy according to the anchor on the Nightly News. Playboy has declared nudes passé because
Standing in line behind a father and his little boy waiting to reach the register
If America is lucky it might still happen. That lawsuit about the university accused of bilking students might go to trial and the accused
We’re twins. We’ve been together from the start. You’re the doctor. You know that.
Raul is a kind man who plays marimba in a salsa band at LA clubs late into the night. Some afternoons he plays
Someone smart told me yesterday you never really know the meaning of a word until
The problem doesn’t lie in not knowing. It lies in our not seeking him because when we die we meet him and we’re blinded by
Loud preacher bellows on Sunday what a silent praying mantis knows Donal Mahoney
It’s a 50th anniversary dinner for Bernie and Blanche at the Elk… After dessert Blanche grabs the m… and primes the crowd by announcing… “Fifty year’s we’ve been married
Puerto Rican girl thin, thin, let street lights pour bourbon on your hair, anise on your skin.
After 30 years together, Carol tells me late one evening in the manner of a quiet wife that I have yet to write a poem about her, something she
They’re in the kitchen, drinking coffee, the kids, in their fifties now, figuring out what to do about Dad who’s
It’s not Clyde who sleeps in a different doorway every night to avoid the cops and it’s not Wayne who sleeps in the
In a very crowded bar Fred decides he must tell this fellow something important so he whispers