Donal Mahoney Poems

When you get old
it’s nice to have all your marbles
even if you can’t count them
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Why not go over and see Aunt Maude.
She was told yesterday she’s dying
of cancer, and drop in her afghan
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The billionaire would send 11 million back
across the border but not the four perhaps
who on this searing summer day
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Rolling down the highway
from Chicago to the farm
Bill the barber’s almost home.
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The bog above Bob Gordon's bog
is where they found the body of
an older man floating like a canoe
among the lily pads. He was
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They've been here for years
two blue jays who live in our yard
year round.
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Antonin Scalia is dead, a famous U.S. Supreme Court judge who loved to hunt. He died in bed on a hunting trip, apparently of natural causes.

There were 35 hunters in his group. They flew to a farm in Texas designed to give folks with money a chance to spend it shooting wildlife.
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Fifty years ago
Jane got on a plane
and flew away
without saying good-bye.
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The beauty of gray
I never noticed until
the other day I saw
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