TRY TO REMEMBER The place was a once-grand resort hotel in Branford called the Montowese House, on the Connecticut shore of Long Island Sound, built by one William Bryan in 1866, for affluent people from New Haven and Hartford seeking healthful sea air and cool breezes during the summers. The Connecticut shore never attracted the
Limericks For The Mango Mussolini How unpleasant to meet Donald Trumpster! If you’re female, he’ll fondle your rumpster. If Latino or black, He’ll launch an attack And try to throw you in the dumpster. How depressing to meet Humpty Drumpty! He shouldn’t be running the country. He’s so stupid and crude, He makes Dubbya look
CAMPAIGN FINANCING Some years ago, I was in a newsstand on Broadway to pick up some smokes, and a woman came in and approached the Pakistani owner. She was in late middle-age, plainly dressed in a subdued blouse and skirt, with sensible shoes, not sneakers, her gray, short-cut hair a sleek helmet. “I’m Marsha Morgenstern
DA SYSTEM, DE JURY Not long too long ago, for the first time in awhile, I got called in for jury duty. I used to be summonsed about every two years, ever since I settled permanently in Manhattan back in 1972, because I was self-employed and Da System assumed I didn’t have a real job.