Six men were sitting at the table in the Day Room, as they call it, at the Whitehall Rest Home. They were playing poker and they had a newcomer in their midst. It was Bill, a retired fa...
If America is lucky it might still happen. That lawsuit about the university accused of bilking students might go to trial and the accused
Every once in awhile over the last 40 years Ralph wondered what might have happened to the guy who had moved in with the mother
It’s never what she says always how she says it and how she stands when she says it and what she says
It’s not the beach. It’s a lake of fire, if it’s there. That lake we heard about in
In 1958 Elmer’s was the only high school in his county that had been integrated. Basketball was the big sport. People in the little town filled the gym every Tuesday and Friday. They ro...
When bread is this good a morsel will suffice and when wine
If I knew I’d live forever I’d never send a poem out. No poem ever comes with ten fingers and ten toes so I’d keep revising, add
Herb’s a middle-age son with a big family and lots of pressure. Too busy to care for Mom and Pop so he drives to Shady Lane to see if he thinks they might like the p…
A friend in England rings me up and we talk about this and that. He asks if my president’s in touch with all that’s going on and I say he should be in touch, going to
Jack Bogan died last week, the la… of the Whippets, a garage band big in a small way back in the Sixties… The Whippets had a following in Chicago and its suburbs.
On their honeymoon he asked her not to sit down. Might bruise the peaches. Donal Mahoney
When will you understand it’s all about me. The world we live in whirls around my axis. Once you understand
In St. Louis young blacks carry guns like cell phones and use them often to shoot each other, as we read in the daily paper
Yours is the first email I opened… I appreciate your suggested revisi… to send the work back once I’ve ma… I can tell you spent a lot of time… I’m afraid, however, that I can’t…