Reality by johnmac the bard
Reading Billy Collins or Bukowski or Sharon Olds Is like watching Ted Williams hit or Steve Jobs sell a concept or Larry Bird see the court or Steven Hawking think.…
Empty Silos
Goodness Gracious by johnmac the bard
I saw him on television this wizened old man speaking softly of days of yore. And then the host Don Imus, said, somewhat cruelly, I thought, “Would you do a…
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Inwood Park
The top of Manhattan Island -- not, though, the top of the borough of Manhattan (but that’s another story) where the Indians fleeced Peter Minuit. Fields…
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The Bars
I grew up in an Irish/Jewish neighborhood the Jewish lads went to school and studied the Irish went to the bars. To be sure, many of…
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The Friday Night Dance
On Friday night, we’d get suited up and head down to our local Catholic Grammar School for a teen age dance (when we got a bit…
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1958
I drive deep into the right corner and go up in the air, hang for an instant, and get nothing but net! Afterwards, one of the…