In two more hours I’ll have to sh… shave and coffee-prop my lids and otherwise prepare for day. It’… and now the barkeep, Griggs, is rushing me, the first

Some things can’t be fixed any other way says Bill in his bedroom on the third floor hoping to get some sleep

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

The question isn’t why your little world is suddenly going to hell. The question is what can you do about

It’s midnight in New York and in this tall building Herb and Molly are in bed making love. Molly is a virgin

In a very crowded bar Fred decides he must tell this fellow something important so he whispers

He publishes poems by writers who find no publishers elsewhere. They suffer rejection and he gives them hope.

“Damn the vernal equinox! Full speed ahead!” is all that Cootie Murphy would ever say when he sat on the last stool at the end of the bar in The Stag & Doe Inn. He wouldn’t say it very ...

Old barber shop in a neighborhood never posh now poor. A single chair with an ancient barber

This brilliant winter morning find… waves of snow on every lawn and red graffiti dripping from the walls of Temple Mizpah

An hour a day, sometimes more, I chipped away with mallet and chisel on a block of marble

I bring a milkshake every other we… to an old man in a nursing home, a refugee from Germany who paid me 50 cents to cut his grass when I w… a kid in Chicago after WWII.

Alive just one week, the Luna moth plastered to my screen door under porch light is pale green and beautiful.

How are things, Adolph? This is Brian, from NBC. Thanks for the interview. It will air in September if the network brings me back.