Snow on Christmas Day. As I walk out with bird seed birds cry Santa’s here. Donal Mahoney
Herb remembers when he was young he’d go to the doctor and complain about aches and pains and sniffles… Now he’s up in years and still goes to the doctor but never
How are things, Adolph? This is Brian, from NBC. Thanks for the interview. It will air in September if the network brings me back.
I sit here at peace and mind my own business and hope for a butterfly. I never take one out of the air. I paint only the flight of the but…
The guillotine dropped between you and a friend over coffee and small talk. The first time it dropped it was someone who said
Were she here with me now, by the waist I would raise her, a chalice of wonder. I’d bellow hosannas and whirl her around,
Punxsutawney Phil sees his shadow in February and says six more weeks of winter. That same day the first moth of spring lands on my storm door
From my stool in the diner I watc… the old woman with elm tree arms command the big booth in back and roar for a menu, take a half hour to read it
After all these years my wife at the ironing board, perfect in panties. Donal Mahoney
There are pockets of them everywhere, quiet and discreet. Usually they meet once a week
Old Yoshiko in Tokyo can’t sleep because her husband snores so she sits in her kimono and eats a few rice cakes with a few sips of saké.
They were refugees, too, back in the Forties, settled in Chicago, learned English, some a lot, some a little,
Oliver Jones, now gray and grizzl… cut the Miller’s lawn for years.… a victim of Agent Orange, Oliver’… almost as old as the Millers, his… Recently he’s left ridges and tuft…
I told my son now that he’s a father he has to be careful about what he says around his child. No swearing, of course,
Paul was at the office when the first atomic bomb fell and when Muntz TVs replaced console radios and the first man landed on the mo… He saw the first big computers tru…