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Donal Mahoney

Donal Mahoney

Two in the Soup

We’re twins.
We’ve been together
from the start.
You’re the doctor.
You know that.
 
She didn’t sound happy
when you told her
there were two.
We’re worried
she doesn’t want us.
 
See you next week
when she comes back
with her decision.
We’ll float till then.
Nothing else to do.
 
Donal Mahoney

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Back to Alaska

Happened 40 years ago senior year of college they were engaged to marry in June till he dropped her off
A Quiet Neighborhood

I wish he had never come out from behind the stove, that spider I stepped on at 4 a.m. He was a big one bothering no one.
A Mountain on the Lawn

You have the back rent and come home from work and find everything in a mountain out on the lawn with the kids sitting on the curb crying
An Old Friend in a Box

I found an old friend in a cardboard box in the basement where I left him forty years ago.
A Change in the Menu

In the paper this morning a woman in the suburbs complained she has to eat too much steak too often because her husband
Missing in Action

Odd fellow who does odd jobs in the neighborhood four seasons of the year has disappeared in high summer and his customers are nervous.
Barmaid Opens at Dawn

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A School Bus Is Coming

On weekday mornings on a quiet corner three moms with small sons and daughters wait for a school bus
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A World Too Dark Too Often

Julie owns a cat that roams. Recently he’s been stopping at Jack and Brenda’s house where Brenda’s mourning her cat’s death. Brenda cries except when Julie’s…
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Joint Custody

You were gone when I got home at midnight from a double shift. Now you’re back,
Put a Fork in Herb

Herb remembers when he was young he’d go to the doctor and complain about aches and pains and sniffles… Now he’s up in years and still goes to the doctor but never
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A Comma is a Pipe Dream

The amount in every paycheck has a period in it. Those who get a paycheck every week dream about seeing a comma three spaces in front of the perio…
A Marital Exchange

It’s never what she says always how she says it and how she stands when she says it and what she says
Reviewing Troops Not There

I don’t see her often since she died but when I do it’s eerie over there at dawn or dusk.
Another Election

You can’t vote for him and you can’t vote for her and you can’t vote for the others you’ve never heard of. The others may not be as odd



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