She’s been making quilts for half a century and he’s been making poems that long as well and every now and then he brings a chocolate shake to her place

“You live long enough and bad stuff happens,” Harry told Stella, slurping his coffee. “I’m 94 next week."

A sense of shame is missing in the world today. If you find it, burp Donal Mahoney

The old poet has agreed to read his poems in Hanley Hall if a student will push his wheelchair on stage. Agreed. And students must agree not to ask

The scruffy old man and his white poodle on a long red leash were neighborhood icons years ago down at the corner

I saw Al once a month for 30 years, maybe more, doing business together. He retired to hunt bear in Alaska, hook Tarpon

Deep in the city where the poor wait for the Second Coming suicide is uncommon. No one leaps off skyscrapers

It’s a small backyard I’ve watched for years from an upstairs window while chained to a computer. Whatever the weather

The others, of course, are more ra… but less apt to show it. Whenever I strike, I never romp o… I stand with the wrist that I’ve… from the lady locked in my teeth

In 1920 he came on a boat from Ireland and found his way through Ellis Island. He found a room in a boarding house

Monsanto still has problems after the carnage caused by Agent Orange. People continue to decay. Monsanto’s Roundup

We’re going dancing, my wife and… to a Charity Ball high in the sky… Glenn Miller’s band has been play… since 1944, the year his plane got… over the English Channel.