Another day at the zoo and Wally’s new job was to feed the ap… Old Stanley had fed the apes for 40 years and loved the job but told Wally he was retiring.

Early evening traffic’s rather heavy. Autos armadillo home along the Outer Drive as out of mouths of buildings

There are Merry-Go-Rounds on Main Street all over America. They hide in storefronts offering payday loans to people who can’t borrow money anywhere else.

I was warm and toasty, curled up, napping in amniotic fluid, without a worry when suddenly

When Bill goes home to the church of his youth he finds things are different. They don’t sing “Amazing Grace” the way they did when he was

If the greatest of these is charit… then tell me again why it’s gauche if this young man in a booth at a bar

Outside, the still of crickets. Inside, petals of a cold sore foliate,

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.

Old lady on a park bench hunkered down babushka and shawl snow and wind dancing everywhere

Fred visits Bill every month at the facility he’s been in for year… Age and booze brought Bill there. He’s still strapped to his bed so he can’t go wandering again

Leaves on a Japanese Maple dance auburn in the wind remind me of that mother crossing Michigan Avenue before the light changes

Puerto Rican girl thin, thin, let street lights pour bourbon on your hair, anise on your skin.

Larry and Bob have the same birth… Their friends at the Gathering Pl… where they plan to celebrate the y… Larry says his children will take… for a nice dinner and it will be g…

Sometimes an egg comes out of a chicken Sometimes a poem comes out of a title Sometimes a chicken

Strapped to his bed in the nursing home, he tells every nurse who comes in and tightens his straps