An old friend lost an old friend the other day. Jim said they were both getting up in years and he just happened to outlast Herman. Jim was black and Herman was white but that had never...
A mountain man is Fillmore but there are no mountains where Fillmore lives deep in a hollow. He’s never had a job
Eight blondes with brown eyes nod at working men nearby. Sunflowers rule the sky. Donal Mahoney
For years Rocky’s Diner had always done a great business for breakfast and lunch but his dinner business had fallen off recently as folks moved to the suburbs, got married, died or simp...
What will she do with him? That is, if she’s elected. She’ll have to take him with her to the White House after keeping him in the doghouse.
We’re upset when vandals desecrate a cemetery and disrespect the dead not so much when doctors vandalize the womb
Being out of work during the holidays is twice as bad and twice that’s happened now to Wally Ballew
In a yard abandoned this winter when the owner moved grass is growing this spring
Oliver Jones, now gray and grizzl… cut the Miller’s lawn for years.… a victim of Agent Orange, Oliver’… almost as old as the Millers, his… Recently he’s left ridges and tuft…
Mike’s old now. His mind is somewhere in the Fifties. Every few weeks one of his kids takes
On holidays I hear from Paul, who’s 80 if a day, who may have won his war on poverty without help from his friends. He won’t accept a cent.
Unlike his peers his office holds no photo of a wife no indication that he has fathered five
No, Freddie can’t say he mourned when his father died and his father’s third wife found Freddie’s number and gave him a call to give him the news. His father had been responsible, worke...
And so I’ll tell old Max, and maybe he will listen, it’s time to call the plumber in and tell him,
After Yeats and Heaney, you wonder when the new one will come galloping out of Dublin or perhaps from yet another farm