a senryu
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…
He likes people if they are useful. Women are useful. Employees are useful. Voters are useful.
It’s not the beach. It’s a lake of fire, if it’s there. That lake we heard about in
Gram tells Stella on the phone her neighborhood is full of old fo… She hasn’t seen Stella in 60 year… and won’t see her again because of the canyon of miles between the…
Long ago you said birth and death were the bookends of life. Nothing before. Nothing after. We were saplings at the time. Since then we’ve made a lot of mon…
In 1920 he came on a boat from Ireland and found his way through Ellis Island. He found a room in a boarding house
Newlyweds cuddle on a bench in their garden. A hummingbird pauses then enters a lily. They make love in public.
Every morning before the sun comes up there’s a feral cat on our deck waiting for a can of Fancy Feast. It’s been that way for years.
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…
They’re in the kitchen, drinking coffee, the kids, in their fifties now, figuring out what to do about Dad who’s
Harley turned 70 the other day and died riding his motorcycle through a pink dawn,
Pete’s never needed anything from childhood on. His parents had it all and gave it to him so it’s hard for him to understand why
A gathering of elders from the local rest home is out for a walk after dusk on canes and walkers admiring roses and lilies
There are good souls who say poverty need not always be with us who say there’s a way to make it disappear
He lives at the edge of a forest and loves all the different trees. He comes to the city for food and basic necessities. He hates the long drive
