Donal Mahoney Poet Blank verse

A Cockamamie Diagnosis

n a life with many valleys
and a few mountaintops
Alvin has met many people
he thought were normal 
and others he thought not.
If a man enjoys people
their stars shine in the sky  
from different angles.
They are all wonderful,
Alvin tells everyone.

For years he's asked doctors 
where on the Milky Way of
normal and abnormal 
his star shines but no 
doctor would ever say.
They don't want to be sued,
Alvin tells everyone.

A doctor he admired 
told Alvin he was a star 
betwixt and between 
normal and not.  
A cockamamie diagnosis,
Alvin tells everyone.

It was given to him by a man 
with degrees all over his wall,
one of which on Alvin's last visit 
he turned upside down and 
security guards carried him 
out of the office down three 
flights of stairs while Alvin  
yelped and waved his arms.
The guards did the right thing,
Alvin tells everyone, saying
I’m no star betwixt and between.


Donal Mahoney

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