Donal Mahoney Poems

My mother always said my father
was a little odd and she lived with him
all those years and should have known.
When we were small my sister and I
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Raul is a kind man
who plays marimba
in a salsa band at LA clubs
late into the night.
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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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No more nudes in Playboy
according to the anchor
on the Nightly News.
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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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Another day at the zoo and
Wally’s new job was to feed the apes.
Old Stanley had fed the apes
for 40 years and loved the job
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It’s all so simple now,
yet it took 30 years
to begin to understand.
It’s as though someone
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Climbing up the dirt hill out
behind the house they’re putting up
in Krupka’s lot, Tom found two pellets
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Infinite feints
for a lane
to go driving.
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