Used to be after a snow our doorbell would ring and we’d find boys with shovels in hand looking to make some money.
Thirty years ago, long before ISIS started executing Kurds, Muslims and Christians, I hired a Pakistani Muslim as an art director in Chicago. I was an Irish Catholic editor putting out ...
After all the tests and the doctor’s explanation she thinks of them not as 20 points of cancer but as 20 rusty nails
Every evening, up in my rooom, I try to finish a poem but Chicago is hot and it’s better outside,
It’s Monday not Sunday and the frail lady in black is the only person in the pews. She walked in with
You were gone when I got home at midnight from a double shift. Now you’re back,
Wally and Fred voted in the big election and then went to O’Leary’s Bar for a couple of beers. O’Leary’s is where men who work for the city go after every important election. Chicago ha...
Paul was at the office when the first atomic bomb fell and when Muntz TVs replaced console radios and the first man landed on the mo… He saw the first big computers tru…
Don’t recall meeting a human being at the megastore staffed by robots in the flesh
There’s a football field between u… I’m in one of the end zones bellow… and you’re in the other one bawlin… the cliffs of your cheekbones streaked with mascara.
It’s your anniversary so you’re thinking steak but your wife wants ramen so you go to a nice place and order the fancy ramen
Mike’s old now. His mind is somewhere in the Fifties. Every few weeks one of his kids takes
In the paper this morning a woman in the suburbs complained she has to eat too much steak too often because her husband
Find the book and blow the dust off. It’s somewhere in the house.
Bill’s a conservative upset that Meals on Wheels and Medicaid face possible cuts in America’s budget. He yells to colleagues