In St. Louis young blacks carry guns like cell phones and use them often to shoot each other, as we read in the daily paper
Harvey at 80 is losing his hearing. He can’t hear his wife when she talks, a symphony lost.
Ralph never planned on dying but when he did, he was swept away like a child’s kite blown astray. When he arrived at his destination… he heard angels singing, harps pla…
I will never forget him but I can’t remember his name it’s been so long ago. Maybe I never knew it. But I think of him on days
If one could store them in the attic without stir and turn to other things, to picking fruit, perhaps, or seeding it, one could afford
The man in the ER, sutured and bandaged, told the nurse there wasn’t anyone she could call to give him a lift home.
After services on Sunday the old Marlboro man puts his Bible under his arm and talks to his pastor through a hole in his neck.
Aaron loves the show on television about antiques. Tonight they have a Grecian vase worth close to a million dollars. Aaron has stuff in the basement
Vacillating Benny, an ancient che… now retired from Monsanto, must de… if a poem his friend Ron has sent… is good enough for his hobby journ… Benny finally decides to let the p…
You love your grandson, this blue bundle in your arms. There’s no doubt about that. He has peaches for cheeks and the sky’s in his eyes
I don’t know if I’ll vote for president this year, something I’ve always done since 1960 when I turned old
Simply because anchors have little to say means they’ll keep saying it till others believe. This is America.
Harvey has a special room in the basement that’s always lock… He keeps a safe there, some antiqu… and family memorabilia he fears midnight thieves might steal.
I died from a rattlesnake bite and found myself in line with other zombies in front of a bank of elevators, the doors opening and closing as if by metronome.
A homeless man hangs himself from a tree at night in the city to close out the year. At dawn a passerby uses