Do you remember how to tie a Windsor knot the way your father taught you on graduation day in eighth grade
Sometimes an egg comes out of a chicken Sometimes a poem comes out of a title Sometimes a chicken
In England they call it moving house packing everything going someplace else bigger better
How many times have I said I’m through teasing myself, through pretending I don’t enjoy the wreath of a woman
Monsanto still has problems after the carnage caused by Agent Orange. People continue to decay. Monsanto’s Roundup
“Screw the Vernal Equinox” is all Cootie Kelly ever says sitting triumphant with his foaming glass of Guinness on the last stool at Maggie’s
Thunder and lightning at first, as I understand it, and then the moon will split in half and disappear and the stars will go dark
An incident in youth never meant to happen recorded on a pad to be read another time
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
When Bill goes home to the church of his youth he finds things are different. They don’t sing “Amazing Grace” the way they did when he was
After the poetry reading the lights go on and a lady under a big hat rises behind dark sunglasses and asks the poet why
I found an old friend in a cardboard box in the basement where I left him forty years ago.
He was predictable all those years going home after work doing odd jobs around the house
After all these years my wife at the ironing board, perfect in panties. Donal Mahoney
hillary dillary dock monica ran up bill’s sock the clock struck three bill said whee hillary dillary dock