There are a lot of people like me neither rich nor poor, idling in the middle who have never wante… for anything in our lives. We were reared by parents
Ten years ago, when they were tykes just in their 70s, Melvin used to tell Emma eat your Wheaties
Like that broad in an apricot bra hanging over the sill of her tenement window, the sun is over me now, its nectar laughing and falling.
The longer I live the greater Mar… compared with those who have tried… The man had integrity, guts, ideas… It was heartbreaking in the Sixti… filled with hope for change in Ame…
Ducktail haircut back in the Fifties made you a rebel without a cause with all your friends.
It’s one thing to work in an office because your skills say you must. It’s another to want to hang out with
A row of lilacs covered with a summer snow. Ten white butterflies. Donal Mahoney
It’s time to stop the killing by order of the courts. Time to stop the injections
In America we say we get the government we deserve. That’s been true for the past eight years.
They moved in on Sunday, a bright and sunny day, the first black family on the bloc… They drove up in two U-Hauls and slowly carried furniture
He tries again to situate his gros… nose beneath his spectacles. He twists the silver toothpick in… and hunches now a little more towa… saying “Listen, dear, I’ve said a…
Although we’ll never again be body to body or mind to mind, you and the place and the years are alive every night in the lette… I’ve stored in my room.
In your mind you hear words snarling all day long but no poem arrives. The words are locked
The uncommon is common in America today. Not that there’s anything wrong with that, Seinfeld
For some nervous wrecks a pill or two might help. For others