The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner
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The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner by Randall Jarrell
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Mon Jan 01 1945
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On May 6, 1914, Randall Jarrell was born in Nashville, Tennessee. He earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Vanderbilt University. From 1937 to 1939 he taught at Kenyon College, where he met John Crowe Ransom and Robert Lowell, and then at the University of Texas.
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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.
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