Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site umd5.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!umcp-cs!cvl!umd5!jay From: jay@umd5.UUCP Newsgroups: net.poems,net.sf-lovers,net.tv Subject: The real (Amazing) Story Message-ID: <782@umd5.UUCP> Date: Fri, 8-Nov-85 09:32:10 EST Article-I.D.: umd5.782 Posted: Fri Nov 8 09:32:10 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 10-Nov-85 03:30:59 EST Distribution: net Organization: U of Md, CSC, College Park, Md Lines: 16 Xref: linus net.poems:874 net.sf-lovers:9931 net.tv:3316 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.