I told my guest it’s just a poem doesn’t mean a thing a salad tossed with colors bright
They moved in on Sunday, a bright and sunny day, the first black family on the bloc… They drove up in two U-Hauls and slowly carried furniture
Jane told Tarzan toodle-oo and moved away to Arizona because although it’s hot out ther… it’s a dry heat and not the swamp of heat she found herself panting
He saved money for years to vacation in the Everglades because he has degrees in the study of reptiles. He’s an expert at the zoo.
The priest had been here earlier a… and relatives and friends in singl… “Sorry for your troubles,” one by… bending over Maggie Murphy, silen… a foot or so from Paddy, resplende…
When we were kids growing up in the city we had prairies and a little hill and we’d put Stevie
It’s Monday not Sunday and the frail lady in black is the only person in the pews. She walked in with
If you live in North Dakota it’s hard to get all hot about global warming in the winter while you watch the snow clog your wipers and you
You think you got problems? You probably do but would you trade with Phillip, a Vietnam vet who still thinks Agent Orange lurks in
In a storefront laundry on North Clark Street brown draperies release this quiet man who has my shirts.
Next to me on the train going home to the suburbs is another guy stuck in a suit reading his paper, a normal-looking guy
There are good souls who say poverty need not always be with us who say there’s a way to make it disappear
twenty-four houses on the same block everyone inside milling about one lost a job
Fancy spam emails I don’t mind nor the ones cobbled in broken English from someone who says he’s with a bank overseas
You’re standing on a window ledge on the 50th floor of your building… It’s Valentine’s Day in Manhatta… clouds cruising, sun everywhere, a nice breeze tossing your hair,