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Winning Poems: The Moods of Summer

All said, "Shrapnel," so Tony says

Shrapnel though he is more inclined to

Believe machine-gun.

"Ellie won't want him with a wooden

Foot," he could hear neighbors talking

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Five-thousand miles from Allentown bedfast on a

Rolling hospital-ship called Mercy. But

No one guessed what Tony's feverish mind

Remembered. Ellie's letters had stopped coming

Already at Ft. Wood, as soon as

Tony learned

How to kill with his bare hands

In less than two seconds. "It's

Easy to break a man's neck if

You know how," he wrote. Ellie

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