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Saturday, September 17, 2022

MAD FLY THEM TO MARTHA’S VINEYARD

by Cody Walker


DeSantis move to fly migrants to Mass. stokes confusion, outrage from critics —The Washington Post, September 16, 2022



He thought he saw a Schlubby Cheetah
     Resting by the Pier:
He looked again, and found it was 
     The Holocaust. “Oh dear.
It happened in my parents’ lifetime.
     Might still happen here.”


Cody Walker is the author of three poetry collections, all from the Waywiser Press. He lives and teaches in Ann Arbor.