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Ruth’s at an age where she’s happy to sit in the sun under a patio umbrella and watch a line of ants
Homer’s a chair arranger who works in meeting rooms on 30 floors in a building tall as Trump Tower. At least it looks that tall to him
A drunk on the subway tells another drunk something a bartender told him. He says if the rich guy wins, it will be the first time
In 1920 he came on a boat from Ireland and found his way through Ellis Island. He found a room in a boarding house
Long article in the paper this morning stops Tim from gobbling his bacon and eggs. Bears are starving in the woods. Too many cubs, too little food.
There never was anyone like Ali between the ropes or facing the public. In the ring and out
Unable to sleep Bill watches preachers on TV after midnight. The preachers warn the Saved Satan is coming to get them. Bill wonders why preachers do this…
You think you got problems? You probably do but would you trade with Phillip, a Vietnam vet who still thinks Agent Orange lurks in
In our tent we hear whippoorwills happy to see dawn dismiss the night Donal Mahoney
A bitter Christmas morning after a foot of snow last night. I shovel the sidewalk and make my way to the bird feeder. Before I can fill it, the wrens
This morning Len sections his bre… with the knife he bought in Paris… on his honeymoon. He bought it fro… at a street market selling every k… beautiful creations he said he mad…
When I was eight I jumped off a roof as if I had a parachute and broke a leg. He was there when I landed,
My wife’s amazed when I station myself at the computer writing this or that despite a hound dog
She’s been making quilts for half a century and he’s been making poems that long as well and every now and then he brings a chocolate shake to her place
Phil doesn’t go to church but after midnight he enjoys watching preachers on TV swing their bibles in the air, march across the stage, yell
