If I owned a magazine I’d publish folks who agree with me as long as they remained abstract,
Unlike his peers his office holds no photo of a wife no indication that he has fathered five
On a clear day in the day room he will tell anyone he has had an askew life. When he was a small boy out for a Sunday walk
Where I live the press says teen use of heroin is epidemic. I thought an epidemic was a widespread disease afflicting thousands caught in
In 1920 he came on a boat from Ireland and found his way through Ellis Island. He found a room in a boarding house
After 50 years Wilma at her class reunion thinks Waldo’s changed with age that he’s nice now, not the snake she wed
Fancy spam emails I don’t mind nor the ones cobbled in broken English from someone who says he’s with a bank overseas
I used to be flexible about meetings at work. Change the hour of a meeting, no problem for me.
He’s Brad and he’s captain of the football team. He’s been chosen prom king and has a scholarship to college. Everything’s going well for him
He lives in the attic of the brownstone down on the corner, been there for years. He’s seen twice a day
I was out of control, spinning on the whirligig of youth, giddy to be caught in what Kerouac called “the whole mad swirl
It’s one thing to work in an office because your skills say you must. It’s another to want to hang out with
I no longer put things back where they belong. I can’t remember where they came from never mind where
I don’t see her often since she died but when I do it’s eerie over there at dawn or dusk.
Roscoe and two cousins rented a va… and drove to Mississippi for the f… of another cousin they grew up wit… It took six hours to get where three old men didn’t want to go