People You Know By Heart

—STOP ME IF YOU’VE HEARD THIS ONE    Not Quite Finished   Sometimes I sit here, watching baseball or golf like any old man, and my son will ...

  —CAN YOU THINK IT LOUDER?     See-through   But you didn’t call me back  is what I hear the man whisper into his cellphone at Gate 8, an a...

  —WHAT IF I CRY EVERY SHOW AND IT’S “HEY, LOOK OUT BELOW”?     …It’s always easy when it’s easy.   …Who cares what I have failed to become?...

  —NOW I WALK AROUND BACKWARD     Help   It helps if you have cocaine.  It helps if it’s an old story, but not one about the sad moon, or a ...

—LEAVE A LIGHT ON FOR YOURSELF   1841   He would call me after a sparrow flew into the window, though he never knew about the dead birds, ho...

—MAYBE THERE’S A BETTER WAY TO SAY THINGS, BUT I HAVEN’T FIGURE THAT OUT YET      …  "You plod along and you find the humor, and you sa...

—LET’S PRETEND IT’S NOT THE END OF THE WORLD   MAGA and the Unbeliever     He’s old enough to know better  almost 88 in September  but still...