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Holiday Parties Millie comes home bawling from another holiday party and Willie asks what’s the problem. Millie says her friends are cheese…
We’re equal we agree in the eyes of someone Fred says isn’t there and I say is and we agree
how does one handle nude on the beach extremities starfished almost asleep how does one handle
Something’s still bright when a widow dies and her son flies in gives her body to science has the movers
Wally made the long drive home from vacation on Election Day because he wanted to vote. He went for a jog and then to the… and cast his vote for his candidat…
He publishes poems by writers who find no publishers elsewhere. They suffer rejection and he gives them hope.
A sense of shame is missing in the world today. If you find it, burp Donal Mahoney
Bill hates to go to parties but he loves to go to wakes. One of the advantages of being old, he says, is that there are fewer parties to go to but a lot more wakes. At parties he finds ...
Snow on Christmas Day. As I walk out with bird seed birds cry Santa’s here. Donal Mahoney
I bring a milkshake every other we… to an old man in a nursing home, a refugee from Germany who paid me 50 cents to cut his grass when I w… a kid in Chicago after WWII.
I’m on my way to Larry’s Place, a food pantry in the city. I park a block away because parking in front of Larry’s isn’t wise even if one drives
As autumn turns colder there’s only one moth fluttering at midnight around the porch light. He’s the last of the flock
I have an old friend who was told some time ago he had six months to live. We live far apart now and he told me about this in an email shortly after the doctor told him. The six months ...
What we are not who we are matters to the world. Who we are not what we are
The poor are hungry in America. Their numbers would fill stadiums throughout this prosperous land. And feral cats are running wild, eating songbirds in our yards,
