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Donal Mahoney

Donal Mahoney

A Nuclear Childhood

What if your parents
had never met
had never married
 
had never yelled
at each other
and instead had wed
 
someone they loved
and lived peacefully
all those years.
 
That would have been
their Eden but you
shaking there now
 
decades later
wouldn’t be with us
cursing the tremors
 
of a nuclear childhood
you still remember
long after they’re dead.
 
 
Donal Mahoney

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