Melanie is from a small town and finds a job in a big city and meets Bill, the man she wants… marry so she calls Alice, her sist… older and married, for advice.

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

They’re usually poor people, sometimes considered the flotsam of society, always in the way at the grocery store,

Like the poor the sparrows we will always have with us, my neighbor lady tells me as she feeds the birds

It was stupid of Walt not to show it to Joan before they got married but he was too shy. He had no idea

Couples age and a sign of age is w… the husband hires someone to shove… and the wife hires a cleaning lady… Sometimes the wife doesn’t like th… and the husband doesn’t like the c…

Black lives matter in different ways to different people in the American rainbow especially bus companies

The doctor tells Phil and his wif… he’s in pretty good health for a m… his age but he needs to exercise. And Phil says he agrees and then goes on to explain

No one goes to the patio now except at night when Ann goes out to spread old bread and sunflower seed on the small table for birds

Monsanto still has problems after the carnage caused by Agent Orange. People continue to decay. Monsanto’s Roundup

A student asks the old poet why he has spent so many years writing. The old poet says no one’s asked him that before. He needs a minute to answer.

A neighbor lady I hadn’t seen in a year I heard was bedridden. Her former husband dropped by, asked if I’d to take in her trash… when I brought in my own.