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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!hayes!bzahniser
  2. From: bzahniser@hayes.com
  3. Newsgroups: rec.arts.poems
  4. Subject: Report from the sleep front
  5. Message-ID: <6344.2b08f5bd@hayes.com>
  6. Date: 17 Nov 92 13:38:05 EDT
  7. Organization: Hayes Microcomputer Products, Norcross, GA
  8. Lines: 39
  9.  
  10. It moved slowly throught the air,
  11. one of those VTOL type aircraft
  12. then something wrong
  13. it
  14. s             f 
  15.  p               l 
  16.    u       f           i
  17.       n  o                      k
  18.                                           e
  19.                                                            a
  20.                                                    r                n
  21.                                            e    
  22.                                    m                                           g
  23.                         o                                                      
  24.              o                 
  25.  b
  26.  
  27.  
  28. and crashed.
  29.  
  30. I sent my son to call 911
  31. I went to the aircraft
  32. there were pieces of bodies everywhere.
  33. Inside, one a table
  34. as if there had just been an operation
  35. a leg
  36. detached
  37. and nearby
  38. a thin body
  39. a woman
  40. unmoving,
  41. I moved out of the plane
  42. through a landscape of broken
  43. still bodies.
  44. There was no life anywhere to be seen
  45. just this disaster
  46. here in my life
  47. here in the middle of nowhere.
  48.  
  49.