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Bricks: A New Book of Poetry
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The Skins of Wisconsin

I used the phone
to call all the lawyers
then moved North
in a small but well-
protected convoy of recreation vehicles.

My aims were unambiguous–
to contact, organize, arm & train
the disparate colonies
of lepers
who live above the fortieth parallel.

© 1992 Daniel X. O'Neil

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