• gigastasio@sh.itjust.works
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    14 days ago

    Underwear by Lawrence Ferlinghetti.

    Still relevant.

    Edit: Posting a runner-up, 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.