A tractor trailer with slats and m… pulls up at a city slaughterhouse. The driver pulls the wrong lever and two thousand pounds of trotting cattle go for an easy
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,
My wife’s upset because I won’t answer the phone in the middle of the night even though the phone’s on my side of the bed.
It’s a 50th anniversary dinner for Bernie and Blanche at the Elk… After dessert Blanche grabs the m… and primes the crowd by announcing… “Fifty year’s we’ve been married
Bella takes two big pills every morning followed by one each of another three.
In my all-boys school sixty years ago there were two boys who were different. All four years they walked to classes together, books
Thirty years later, Dad came back and we met for Ham and Yams at To… Pouring his tea, he told me he had to restore power once at a newspaper warehouse
Dubville used to be a quiet town, not that much was going on. The young would move to the city after high school… The elderly would stay because
If he were in high school they’d call him a bully and take him to the principal’s office for counseling.
It’s not de rigueur to believe he’s there behind the sun, the stars, the moon watching us
When Bernie wakes at 6 a.m. there’s a piano on his chest and Erroll Garner’s playing “Mist… Sinatra’s on the headboard improvising lyrics
Old barber shop in a neighborhood never posh now poor. A single chair with an ancient barber
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
We’re all salmon swimming upstream until the job’s done. Some of us know it and some of us don’t.
Yours is the first email I opened… I appreciate your suggested revisi… to send the work back once I’ve ma… I can tell you spent a lot of time… I’m afraid, however, that I can’t…