Next to me on the train going home to the suburbs is another guy stuck in a suit reading his paper, a normal-looking guy
There are Merry-Go-Rounds on Main Street all over America. They hide in storefronts offering payday loans to people who can’t borrow money anywhere else.
He asked and so I told him. The “cancer” poems stem from cancer in the family. Daughter’s terminal. Son’s a five-year survivor.
Dubville used to be a quiet town, not that much was going on. The young would move to the city after high school… The elderly would stay because
The blind artist paints life as he wants it to be a tranquil sky a big sun smiling everyone laughing.
Praise for Him coming from us is like the bark of a terrier at the foot of his master
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.
You’re glad when the holidays are over and everyone’s gone home and the ribbons and wrappings are balled up in the garbage.
First, we place the neck on the bl… and put the basket underneath the head and then make sure the bl… is sharp enough before we ask the… one more time just to be polite:
Let’s stop the crying, Millie. It’s true our friends are dying. They’re old like you and me. Why not celebrate instead that 80 years ago you and I
When he was just a boy, they took him to the dump to scavenge, bits of metal, any food that might be eaten. When he became a man,
It isn’t a flophouse where Fred lives now but he calls it that a month after moving in and seeing his fellow
A gray summer day the sun is on vacation sunflowers hang their heads Donal Mahoney
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,
Annie has a nice washing machine n… but she remembers the one her mother had with the wringer, the old-fashioned kind. Her mother took in washing and whe…
