Two old men meet for coffee once a week at a diner while their wives play cribbage. Jim says he has a problem. His wife leaves the water running

Day and night preachers hawk the Message of the Cross on television. Once a month they pause and beg for money for

Two people so different can view the poor through different lenses and offer a solution but not the same solution

Two men tall, one from here and one from there, in raincoats at a bus stop,

In 1962 my father toiled in Quinc… two weeks, no more, and saw no blacks except for two young ladies who moved like swans

In 1961, Newton Minow said television is a vast wasteland. I was reading four papers a day th… and seldom watched television, had no opinion on what he said.

It was an ancient city. All the young people left as soon as they could but the old remained in their mortgaged huts

It started with a smirk she managed to arrest. It returned seconds later in a sneer she pulled back but then it appeared again

If I knew I’d live forever I’d never send a poem out. No poem ever comes with ten fingers and ten toes so I’d keep revising, add

When Bill goes home to the church of his youth he finds things are different. They don’t sing “Amazing Grace” the way they did when he was

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:

“Quiet, please,” I tell her, “I want to hear the music.” She is sitting next to me again, this time on a paisley couch, a woman in a lime bikini I met

They’re getting older, five brothers and sisters, all with degrees, jobs, families, nice homes, good lives, happier than most except when they must

You won’t find poetry anywhere unless you bring some of it with y… said Joseph Joubert, a French writer whose day job was working for Napoleon.