Harvey at 80 is losing his hearing. He can’t hear his wife when she talks, a symphony lost.
“If you don’t like the gun, my dea… I can exchange it for a negligee b… I’ve given you many negligees. I think a gun’s important to have around the house
No Supper for a Year My wife looks out the kitchen wind… and tells me the starlings are bac… the same big flock as yesterday strolling around our yard
Rose was a plain girl from a small town. She sang in the choir, never missed Bible study, left for the big city
Willie in his 80s now hadn’t made sense in years. His wife understood his grunts from the recliner where she propped him up
Being out of work during the holidays is twice as bad and twice that’s happened now to Wally Ballew
Fred prefers a mouse connected by a wire to his keyboard. Walt prefers a mouse that’s portable, able
We do our best to avoid the Zika Virus. We smack mosquitoes and avoid tanned folks just back from two weeks in the tropics.
They laugh at him because he’s weak by their standards but they don’t realize they’ve signed a
Tonight I can’t sleep so I ponder the universe and all the planets around me swirling in syncopation with me on one of them
There’s a moral to this story. Police in St. Louis have arrested a teen for felony auto theft. They asked her why she did it. She said the owners didn’t
Beautiful fall day in a potter’s field outside a small town. A funeral is underway but that doesn’t stop
Old Sol hires young Abdul, a refugee, to cut his grass and we… Saul tells his neighbor Old Paddy young Abdul does a good job and has a wife and three kids
A small city on the outskirts of St. Louis has ordered Alice Hezel to pull the swamp milkweed out of her yard because the city says it’s a weed and weeds aren’t allowed in Maplewood, Mi...
You won’t find poetry anywhere unless you bring some of it with y… said Joseph Joubert, a French writer whose day job was working for Napoleon.