Donal Mahoney Poems

He's my buddy, this tiny spider
sitting in his web, not moving,
waiting for a fly that never comes.
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The nice thing about being dead
is you no longer care if the doctor
mucked up your diagnosis and the
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Lad, this stuff
has got to stop,
this standing
in the washroom wiping
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The United Nations has learned burly men still club baby seals to death on ice floes in the Arctic.

Killing baby seals angers animal rights advocates who have lobbied hard to stop these killings. Some now want Planned Parenthood to supply female seals with the Morning After Pill so they can enjoy the company of bull seals without conceiving.
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The gossip started years ago
and ruined lives, burned everyone.
No one ever tried to stop it.
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Things are quiet here, a friend writes
in the first email of his long life:

Most mornings I drive to Gillson Park,
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By email I ask her
what color panty
what color bra
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Henry's been married 50 years
without a sorry day,
his wife Opal reminds him
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The morning paper says
Debbie Reynolds is 82.

Sixty years ago, the little doll
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A skirt too tight on Carol Ann
summoned forth a handsome man

who said he had a foolproof plan
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