Seeing is believing smart people often tell me but no one ever told me believing is seeing

Every four years I vote and every four years for the last 40 years the same lady has signed me in

Every evening, up in my rooom, I try to finish a poem but Chicago is hot and it’s better outside,

Can you hear me in the bunker, Le… Sorry to hear ISIS has you in a… But I’m delighted to know you’re… camouflaged in your bunker with an… Now you’re telling me ISIS is th…

A gray summer day the sun is on vacation sunflowers hang their heads Donal Mahoney

In two more hours I’ll have to sh… shave and coffee-prop my lids and otherwise prepare for day. It’… and now the barkeep, Griggs, is rushing me, the first

I told my wife the other night when she came back to bed my feet were cold so now’s the time for me to tell her not to bury me or burn me

An old guy on the subway with a lunch bucket tells a young lady with a brief case Bernie hasn’t got a chance.

For years Willie has saved his mo… investing it in stocks and bonds, waiting to sit in his recliner each quarter with a martini reviewing his profits.

He’s always believed people of every faith can live in peace together in America no matter what happens

You take care now, Harold, and don’t slip on the ice looking for a good bookstore on the streets of Chicago. Print is dead, Harold,

When a man’s young, this work is hard but it pays well and he can feed the wife and kids.

On a clear day in the day room he will tell anyone he has had an askew life. When he was a small boy out for a Sunday walk

Two doves on a telephone wire wait tor the blue jays to finish e… bread put out for the birds. When the jays arrived, sparrows fled into the trees

An hour a day, sometimes more, I chipped away with mallet and chisel on a block of marble