Donal Mahoney Poems

All over the world
folks die every day
by the thousands
sometimes the millions
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After World War II
before television,
before women had tattoos
before men wore earrings,
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She works in a sandwich shop
splitting loaves of bread
stacking them with meat
for the construction crew
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for Jimmy Swaggart

It’s not easy watching preachers
howling on television
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I used to talk to myself
and ask a lot of questions
but my answers made no sense
so now I talk to Him.
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We’re not the Trumps
my wife and I
but we have enough
and can’t complain
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Father had a law
when it came to leaves
gathering on our lawn in fall.
On a Saturday each fall,
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Autumn arrives
and the local high school
has a good football team.
They take the field every afternoon
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The Downy is the smallest flicker
but his arrival is uninvited and
disturbs the hummingbirds
circling in fury
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The Second Commandment
is pretty specific: Thou shalt not take
the Name of the Lord Thy God in vain.
It’s one of the few commandments
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