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.
I’m amazed at the difference between my friend and me. His response to life is so different from mine. I live deep in the city
In a storefront laundry on North Clark Street brown draperies release this quiet man who has my shirts.
Fifty years ago Jane got on a plane and flew away without saying good-bye. Her parents took her, I know.
You start by throwing things out packing things that will fit in a smaller place, selling stuff that won’t, ignoring the birds because the seed’s run out
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
Early evening traffic’s rather heavy. Autos armadillo home along the Outer Drive as out of mouths of buildings
Only the blind man with his leader dog and tapping cane stops when the homeless man standing near the curb
Old lady on a park bench hunkered down babushka and shawl snow and wind dancing everywhere
The two religions differ in a number of ways Insha’Allah! Alleluia! There’s a radical difference especially in their martyrs.
A spindly young fawn wanders away from its doe. Coyotes must eat. Donal Mahoney
She was about the doing not about applause canning tomatoes in summer baking pies in fall quilting winter away
Strapped to his bed in the nursing home, he tells every nurse who comes in and tightens his straps
Through the nursery glass Carlos Montero peeks at Consuela, his twelfth, in the arms of a nurs… Pink as a peony with brilliant black hair,
Universal salvation claims everyone goes to Heaven and no one goes Hell. Highly controversial. The auditorium was packed