Donal Mahoney Poems

My wife likes to garden.
She's crazy about roses,
lilies and daisies.
She says I should get out
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Old Sol hires young Abdul,
a refugee, to cut his grass and weed.
Saul tells his neighbor Old Paddy
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Since kindergarten Darius and Clarice
have ridden the same bus to school
from the city to way out in the suburbs.
They're the only black kids in 8th grade.
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It isn't a flophouse
where Fred lives now
but he calls it that
a month after moving in
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Odd fellow who does odd jobs
in the neighborhood
four seasons of the year
has disappeared in high summer
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Wonder Woman they call Sylvia,
who excels at raising money to
put child abusers in prison.
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If America is lucky
it might still happen.
That lawsuit about the university
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You won't find poetry anywhere
unless you bring some of it with you,
said Joseph Joubert,
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You have to be married
at least 30 years to know
what your wife is thinking
before she says it aloud.
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