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Randall Jarrell |
 (1945)
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The Death Of A Ball Turret Gunner |
From my motherīs sleep I fell into the State And hunched in his belly till my wet fur froze. Six miles from the earth, loosed from its dream of life, I woke to black flak and the nightmare fighters. When I died they washed me out of the turret with a hose. |
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