A group of older men gather once a week to talk about life after a heart attack. Old Len chews tobacco still and tells jokes in a voice so low
Freddie and Fern were an old couple, a very old couple if truth be told, but on the matter of age, the truth seldom surfaced. Their kids were grown and gone and had families of their ow...
Melba comes home from the grocery… She was walking away from the dair… He was there with a pregnant girl… He said to Melba, “Ma’m, is this… Melba told him it was margarine.
No one goes to the patio now except at night when Ann goes out to spread old bread and sunflower seed on the small table for birds
No youngster himself, Fred often… “There are always preludes to hell… For Fred one of those preludes is… the things in life Fred can’t fix.… Another prelude is paying the trad…
Better take his wife to lunch after what he said yesterday. A slip of the tongue. But where to take her? The Chinese buffet?
“Tell Pablo I cannot see!” says the man in the Picasso painti… as I pass by, program in hand. The man has a hairy nose where each of his ears should be.
How many times have I said I’m through teasing myself, through pretending I don’t enjoy the wreath of a woman
Widow in a rocker pets her calico cat long strokes slowly. With the cat purring and the widow humming
When a young woman like that sails into the conference room, all masts billowing, there’s nothing the men around the table can do
You never know who’ll be there though folks are dying to get in. Then suddenly you’re at the door, hat in hand,
The ones we didn’t abort we’re starting to euthanize so no worries there. It’s the ones in the middle still walking around
The others, of course, are more ra… but less apt to show it. Whenever I strike, I never romp o… I stand with the wrist that I’ve… from the lady locked in my teeth
They’re starlets Hollywood has yet to discover, two nice young ladies who assemble sandwiches at the Subway Shop Monday through Friday at noon.
First time seeing this doctor, a specialist. Took a month to get an appointment. The waiting room’s packed. I grab the last seat