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October 14,
1959
3:14a.m.
7 l b s . 4 Y2 o z .
William Reinhart Hughes, Jr. Lynchburg, Va.
The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner
From my mother's sleep. I fell into the State,
And I hunched in its belly till my wet fur froze.
Six miles from earth. loosed from its dream of life.
I woke to black flack and the nightmare fighters.
When I died, they washed me out of the turret with a hose.
Randall Jarrell
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