Donal Mahoney Poems

After 50 years Wilma
at her class reunion thinks
Waldo’s changed with age
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Ginny didn’t know if it was a large pond or a small lake in the middle of the beautiful park where she had been hired right after high school to help with maintenance of the grounds. Now, however, her duties had been expanded beyond cutting the grass and weeding the unending flower beds. Now she had been tasked with collecting goose eggs from the nests around the pond. None of her co-workers envied her getting this assignment. It wasn’t as easy as it sounded.

Years ago migrating Canada Geese had begun stopping in the park and some of them liked it so much they stayed, establishing homes, if you will, around the water. They built nests, laid eggs and produced quite a large flock of beautiful geese.
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Brett and Amanda were
in the same wedding party.
He was best man,
bronze and handsome.
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I can’t speak for the women
attending this conference
on Homeland Security.
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Strapped to his bed
in the nursing home,
he tells every nurse
who comes in
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Her lips?
As I recall,
even when she talked
her lips were slung
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A rainy Sunday
and Pastor Smith is
in his pulpit bellowing
to the congregation,
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The teacher tells the third grade
the order of the seasons
cannot be changed.
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Hair salons for men
are everywhere now.
Not many barbershops
like Herman’s any more,
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Bangladesh is a land of money for clothing firms that pay very low wages to workers in 400 garment factories near the capital of Dhaka.

Consumers in Western nations benefit from low retail prices for items of clothing these low wages produce.
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