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Best Mutes Poems


Midnight Mutes the Chiming
Midnight Mutes the Chiming

There’s nothing here
I’m surrounded by things and people
and entertainment that never ends
but there’s nothing here

My mind is empty
filled to the brim with stories
and movies and interesting facts
and I could pull from it and show you everything
but my mind is empty

There’s nobody near
they’re...

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Categories: mutes, anxiety, depression, loneliness,
Form: Free verse
Two Mutes In the Press Room
Two Mutes in the Press Room


The two mutes we hired
to wheel hot type 
are bickering again

Their fingers 
quicker than beaks of cocks 
tear the air

with perfect curses
tongues never utter
ears never hear


Donal Mahoney...

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Categories: mutes, on work and working
Form: Free verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things