A Small World On A City Block Poem by Donal Mahoney

Old Sol hires young Abdul,
a refugee, to cut his grass and weed.
Saul tells his neighbor Old Paddy

young Abdul does a good job
and has a wife and three kids
and needs money for his family.

Sol says Abdul was an engineer
in Syria before the war but now
he has to improve his English

to find work as an engineer.
Till then he still has a family to feed.
Old Paddy understands and hires Abdul

to cut his grass and weed.
A month later Paddy tells Sol
they have to worry about Abdul:

His English is getting better.
Paddy's says Abdul might find work.
If he does, who will shovel their snow?