The soup kitchen opens an hour late. The rain finally stops and the hungry file in. They’ve had a long wait.
Middle of the night someone’s in the house. Can’t be the wife asleep next to you. She’ll be mad
I told my wife the other night when she came back to bed my feet were cold so now’s the time for me to tell her not to bury me or burn me
For some nervous wrecks a pill or two might help. For others
The last visitor before I sleep is always the old priest puffing up the stairs to my door, a wine cask under each arm, a loaf of pumpernickel in his teet…
In that backyard three small trash cans had their place next to each other against the house.
The doctor tells Phil and his wif… he’s in pretty good health for a m… his age but he needs to exercise. And Phil says he agrees and then goes on to explain
I like to watch master chefs on television do their thing. My favorite is Jacques Pépin when he has to chop an onion. No one chops an onion faster.
Back in 1957 kissing Carol Ann behind the barn in the middle of a windswept field
Fred’s a reasonable man something he takes pride in. Just the other night before he threw a dish against the wall while
Remember, a blind man can see things a sighted man can’t… So I’ll tell you about her and th… you can tell me whether I’m right. The first time a man meets her,
twenty-four houses on the same block everyone inside milling about one lost a job
When he was just a boy, they took him to the dump to scavenge, bits of metal, any food that might be eaten. When he became a man,
Tea in the afternoon with his wife of many years is usually peaceful, Hubert thinks before he makes his announcement. Then he says it. “I’m going upstairs,” Hubert tells Ruth as he hois...
Our house has a garret I never went up to until I retire… Now I’m up there almost every day unless I have to stay in bed until another spell passes.