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Subject: The real (Amazing) Story
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Date: Fri, 8-Nov-85 09:32:10 EST
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There has been so much throughout the net lately dealing with the Amazing
Stories Episode of November 3 that I thought I'd share a more concise,
more realistic, and just as amazing story as told by Randall Jarrell in
a five line poem (if only Mr. Spielberg could be as concise):

	The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner
			by Randall Jarrell

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 flak and the nightmare fighters.
When I died they washed me out of the turret with a hose.
-- 
Jay Elvove       ..!seismo!rlgvax!cvl!umd5!jay
c/o Systems, Computer Science Center, U. of MD.