Donal Mahoney Poems

He's out there again,
my neighbor, the doctor,
waiting for the snow plow
to pass so he can jog
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Near dwarf this woman.
Foreign born, Minsk,
perhaps. Her nose
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The New Morse Hotel
Chicago, circa 1970

What if after Browne has gone
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The mother's dead.
Thirty years later
you meet the daughter
and realize the daughter
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Covey of nuns
without benefit of wimple
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He's out there again, my neighbor, the doctor, waiting for the snow plow to pass so he can jog on a clean street.
It's 5 a.m. and we've had three inches of snow and it's still coming down but nothing can stop him.
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You don't know me but
maybe we should meet.
I'm your neighbor now,
just moved in
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He has to be
one of the three-
lunatic, liar or lord
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Gloria Gompers' first husband died from a stroke on the third day of their honeymoon. It was a terrible inconvenience for Gloria, having to bring his body back from Hawaii to New York so her husband's parents could hold a funeral. Had it been up to Gloria,
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Spread 'Em for Anyone Edna
had always had trouble with men.
It started in high school when Edna,
big for her age, hosted the soccer team,
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