Happened 40 years ago senior year of college they were engaged to marry in June till he dropped her off
This morning I woke up early feelin’ good, feelin’ the way I felt 50 years ago, no aches, no pains, can’t wait to shower, hop on the El, go back to work,
“Screw the Vernal Equinox” is all Cootie Kelly ever says sitting triumphant with his foaming glass of Guinness on the last stool at Maggie’s
In 1962, I was a caseworker, not a social worker, in the Cabrini-Green Housing Project in Chicago. In that era, the difference between a caseworker and a social worker was simple. A soc...
The hands on the atomic clock upstairs finally stopped spinning. As you know, my dear, the hands have been spinning for two weeks. This morning the clock stopped
This black moth flew in the front door of the living room the other night and has been up
Bill’s been seeing a therapist for years trying to get his life on track but all he talks about is his many regrets in a life
In St. Louis young blacks carry guns like cell phones and use them often to shoot each other, as we read in the daily paper
I wish he had never come out from behind the stove, that spider I stepped on at 4 a.m. He was a big one bothering no one.
“One stall for all” is a new scenario for Wilbur. Thanks to his wife, he knew in the past the right thing to do but now he doesn’t know what
Do I write in the third person or only in the first? Do my ideas reign supreme or do other ideas work as well? Do I know I’m always right
The police have announced the arrest of an ecumenical fellow who in less than two weeks in the middle of the night set fir… to seven churches in St. Louis.
I told my guest it’s just a poem doesn’t mean a thing a salad tossed with colors bright
Sending out an address change to a friend I haven’t seen in 50 years, I say my wife and I are moving someplace new next month
If love’s real, not the puppy kind, it’s not just a feeling but an act of the will a constant giving