Donal Mahoney Poems

You start by throwing things out
packing things that will fit
in a smaller place, selling stuff
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If he were in high school
they'd call him a bully
and take him to
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Steven is a retired teacher disturbed by the problems he sees in education. Schools weren't perfect when he was teaching but they were better than they are today. He has ideas for improvements.

Some of his ideas are new and some have been around awhile. It's hard to disagree with them. The problem is, they will cost money and that money will have to come from higher taxes. He thinks if we can spend billions on defense, we can afford to spend millions on education. Children's minds are more important, he says, than missiles and bombs.
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Cold Coffee they call him
and only a few people know
his real name, this odd fellow
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He tried so hard to be
everybody's friend, agreed
with everything we said.
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We're upset when vandals
desecrate a cemetery
and disrespect the dead
not so much when doctors
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The soup kitchen
opens an hour late.
The rain finally stops
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Jack Bogan died last week, the last
of the Whippets, a garage band big
in a small way back in the Sixties.
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