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

There’s nothing wrong with you. We both know this is true but there’s something wrong with m… and you know what that is. It’s the elephant in the room

I turn on the news to see who won the game last night but first the scores from hot spots in the city. Two people are killed

She has wanted to be Miss America since third grade when she won the… in Snow White and the Seven Dwar… Now a finalist, she has told the j… she wants to lecture at colleges o…

Farmer John knows he’s old but didn’t think he was that old until he went to town one day and met a young lady he liked as much as he likes the corn

The bog above Bob Gordon’s bog is where they found the body of an older man floating like a canoe among the lily pads. He was covered with crustaceans.

It’s outpatient surgery and she’s running late trying to catch a spider in the kitchen sink. Wants to carry it outside

Lamentations loud amid the tears following Orlando. Another call to take guns from people

When my neighbor told me over the fence a month ago the doctor said she had two years to live,

You won’t find poetry anywhere unless you bring some of it with y… said Joseph Joubert, a French writer whose day job was working for Napoleon.

Tonight I can’t sleep so I ponder the universe and all the planets around me swirling in syncopation with me on one of them

In the woods soft snow falls on the first day of spring. Two daffodils laugh. Donal Mahoney

I should have said yes, meet you anywhere you want for lunch, even that greasy spoon with the lousy chili and corn dogs… Every five years or so we meet