His wife takes him to dinner as she always does on his birthday wearing bright red lipstick, a color she detests but he likes.
I’ll have to ask some preacher what if he comes when it’s inconvenient when I’m bowling or lifting a stein of lager
Handsome is as handsome does, Jeanie always said, when Donald was away on business.
All lives matter now unless they’re inconvenient. No room in the womb. Donal Mahoney
These are old people retired and driving slowly from small apartments in economy cars getting out on canes
Far away and long ago stuff happened in Gramps’ life that he’d like to forget but he can’t, even though he can’t always remember what he had for breakfast, lunch or dinner. But anything...
Don’t recall meeting a human being at the megastore staffed by robots in the flesh
I can’t speak for the women attending this conference on Homeland Security. They’re scholars, too, brought here for their expertise.
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
Does he remember? Jenny, how could he forget? Thirty years ago you roared into his office and raged about your cousin’s
Virgil comes to group therapy every week in his pick-up truck with his dog, Buster, standing in the bed of the truck. The sessions are held for veterans of Korea and Vietnam. Quite a fe...
Things are quiet here, a friend wr… in the first email of his long lif… Most mornings I drive to Gillson… sit and read beside the Lake. The waves are a symphony.
Melanie was waiting for the light… at 12th and Broadway when a large… a big truck and 10 gallon hat roar… right beside her. His truck cab lo… above her old Buick. His stereo b…
When Bill was a lad his parents preached that Scripture was the truth. Decades later now Bill still believes that.
Puerto Rican girl thin, thin, let street lights pour bourbon on your hair, anise on your skin.