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'Mabel is There Every Day' by Donal Mahoney

1/2/2017

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​Mabel Is There Every Day
 
If you arrive too early
at the public library
and stand on
 
the steps with Mabel
till the doors open
you will hear Mabel’s
 
oration for the day.
Mabel is there every day
and her utterances vary.
 
Today three strangers
hear Mabel tell about
neighborhood teens
 
who park on her block
and play their car radios
loud into the night
 
and keep her awake.
She has called the cops
but that hasn't helped.
 
The next night the cars
are back, windows down,
radios louder than ever.
 
But Mabel has a solution.
Put those kids in jail
and build a wall
 
and then deport them.
Don’t come to the library early.
Mabel is there every day.
 
 
Donal Mahoney
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1/13/2017 07:36:02 am

This is a very beautiful, yet amusing poem. It seems that Mabel is the personification of someone who puts people into jail. I cannot really comprehend how Mabel's character was made. At first, I thought that she is a character about depression and sadness. However, as I progressed through the poem, it seems that Mabel is more than just some persona of hindering feelings.

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