Paul was at the office when the first atomic bomb fell and when Muntz TVs replaced console radios and the first man landed on the mo… He saw the first big computers tru…
After the TV mavens had their say the gnomes crept out of their cave… spoke and returned to their caves. Thunder struck, hell broke loose and the mavens came back on TV
Day and night preachers hawk the Message of the Cross on television. Once a month they pause and beg for money for
We’re all salmon swimming upstream until the job’s done. Some of us know it and some of us don’t.
My wife’s upset because I won’t answer the phone in the middle of the night even though the phone’s on my side of the bed.
Jim Daley and Joe McCarthy had something in common. They died at 80 going to the bathroom in the middle of the night. Walt O’Brien, their protege, found this out when he called the home...
Odd fellow who does odd jobs in the neighborhood four seasons of the year has disappeared in high summer and his customers are nervous.
Outside, the still of crickets. Inside, petals of a cold sore foliate,
A mountain man is Fillmore but there are no mountains where Fillmore lives deep in a hollow. He’s never had a job
After all these years my wife at the ironing board, perfect in panties. Donal Mahoney
First time seeing this doctor, a specialist. Took a month to get an appointment. The waiting room’s packed. I grab the last seat
He looks for you until you find him while you wonder if he’s there Donal Mahoney
A gray summer day the sun is on vacation sunflowers hang their heads Donal Mahoney
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
A student asks the old poet why he has spent so many years writing. The old poet says no one’s asked him that before. He needs a minute to answer.