The World in the Year 3000
There are pockets
of them everywhere,
quiet and discreet.
Usually they meet
once a week
in private homes
in basements
some call catacombs.
Depending on the group
a minister will preach,
a priest say Mass
a rabbi teach.
Elsewhere you will find
a mosque on almost
every street.
Donal Mahoney
Bullies and the Wimp
They laugh at him
because he’s weak
by their standards
but they don’t realize
they’ve signed a
contract with him,
a lifetime guarantee
for recompense.
It will be fulfilled
perhaps tomorrow or
maybe on a wedding day
or years from now at
the funeral of a loved one
when they’re as vulnerable
as he appears to be
and for the moment is
but they don’t realize
the spider in its web
looks slow to any fly
circling overhead.
Donal Mahoney