"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." - Randall Jarrell

Randall Jarrell: From my mother's sleep I fell into the State, And I...

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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." - Randall Jarrell

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