Short Pigeonhole Poems

Men walk and women stroll.
Bosses putt and workers bowl.
Do we jump into our pigeonhole
or are we pushed into playing a role?...

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Remember when you set your goal
You can't rise up a totem pole!
Avoid the chafe
And play it safe
Inside your cozy pigeonhole!...

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Envelope in the Pigeonhole 


This evening 
when I return to the hotel
I see in my pigeonhole
Angela’s writing 
on a yellow envelope.

What excuse 
will she have for not writing?
Too busy, perhaps, 
stirring cauldrons of soup
while the cats dash about 
licking her calves.

Or don’t the cats know enough
to lick at her calves?
Would that I were the cats
and the cats were taller.  


Donal Mahoney...

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