Donal Mahoney Poems

Wally read something
he thought good advice
for those who lose
the race.
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a senryu


Pistols in holsters
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Years ago Rodney King,
after his beating in LA,
softly asked America,
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Red, yellow, brown
work well together in
a portrait of society.
Add black, no problem.
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They moved in on Sunday,
a bright and sunny day,
the first black family on the block.
They drove up in two U-Hauls
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We're troubled by the very rich
we see only on TV and worry
about the poor who sleep at night
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Maybe I should have waited for the Year of Mercy to have arranged for a suite of Gregorian Masses to be said for a pedophile priest. He had the good fortune to die in a Catholic nursing home after receiving the last rites. He probably received the Apostolic Pardon as well. If so, that Pardon may have removed his need for Gregorian Masses but I didn't want to take a chance. I wanted to make sure he entered Heaven as soon as possible. Not exactly the kind of fellow one would expect to show up there so quickly.

You see, I did not have the Masses said for his sake necessarily although I thought that would be a nice thing to do. I didn't even know the man. I simply read about his alleged history of abuse of children in the secular press and it sounded horrendous.
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Being bipolar isn't easy
but it's tougher
when you're poor
and have to walk
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The hands on the atomic clock
upstairs finally stopped spinning.
As you know, my dear, the hands
have been spinning for two weeks.
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I understand what you mean
when you say you're alone
and hope someone rings your
bell day or night but that's
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