Sleet on the turnpike in the middle of the night but I keep driving, both hands on the wheel, nowhere to pull off,
Sometimes she sits there and listens to him. Sometimes he sits there and listens to her. Sometimes they know
Niagara Falls her silver hair so long it bounces off the swan
It’s just a flophouse but it’s all he can afford and now it’s come to this. If he buys food he can’t pay the rent
“We had the other ones done there,… “Why not go there again? Everythi… No complications. Who cares about… Bunch of do-gooders with hidden ca… “I don’t care about the publicity,…
He’s at least 70 now and has never forgotten his childhood. He lives with that child every day… He remembers that Thanksgiving Da… his family had parched field corn
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.
A friend in England rings me up and we talk about this and that. He asks if my president’s in touch with all that’s going on and I say he should be in touch, going to
They’ve been married 50 years and never a sorry day, Wally likes to say. Melba’s been a great wife but she’s very sick and doctors sa…
Mae mailed Christmas cards today, fewer again this year because death has made her address book a skeleton. She has a son in Russia
Puerto Rican girl thin, thin, let street lights pour bourbon on your hair, anise on your skin.
There are a lot of people like me neither rich nor poor, idling in the middle who have never wante… for anything in our lives. We were reared by parents
A little boy from the city down on the farm for a day wanders away to look at the sheep and finds a bull
Fred and Martha have always voted the same way since their marriage long ago but not this time and Fred wondered why Martha was voting the other way
She was old already when you had her in 8th grade and she said you should sit in the first seat third row right in front of her for