They laugh at him because he’s weak by their standards but they don’t realize they’ve signed a
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
He should have married someone, James tells himself at 80 coughing in bed with the flu. He remembers very well that Miranda was a nice girl.
A homeless man hangs himself from a tree at night in the city to close out the year. At dawn a passerby uses
You think he’d be more grateful. Neither rich nor poor he’s never wanted for anything. He’s always had what he needs but never had any gratitude
Long ago you said birth and death were the bookends of life. Nothing before. Nothing after. We were saplings at the time. Since then we’ve made a lot of mon…
He asked and so I told him. The “cancer” poems stem from cancer in the family. Daughter’s terminal. Son’s a five-year survivor.
In 1920 he came on a boat from Ireland and found his way through Ellis Island. He found a room in a boarding house
It’s just a flophouse but it’s all he can afford and now it’s come to this. If he buys food he can’t pay the rent
You can’t vote for him and you can’t vote for her and you can’t vote for the others you’ve never heard of. The others may not be as odd
Fred’s a reasonable man something he takes pride in. Just the other night before he threw a dish against the wall while
“We had the other ones done there,… “Why not go there again? Everythi… No complications. Who cares about… Bunch of do-gooders with hidden ca… “I don’t care about the publicity,…
He’s not among the quick and not among the dead. He’s somewhere in between he tells anyone who stops his wheelchair in the halls
Freddie and Fern were an old couple, a very old couple if truth be told, but on the matter of age, the truth seldom surfaced. Their kids were grown and gone and had families of their ow...
Covey of nuns without benefit of wimple graciously attired sport coat, turtleneck, skirt scurry through the airport