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    Quote Originally Posted by FindersKeepers View Post
    Some of the most heartfelt poetry in the world is memorialized in song. Something about the combination of the words and the melody. How many have ridden/driven/flown into war singing? And Amazing Grace? Nothing, without the lilting bagpipes.
    I came across a small book the other day called 'Blackbird Singing' by Paul McCartney. It was simply the lyrics to many of the songs that he's written over the years, arranged as poetry. I suppose that if someone had never heard of McCartney or the Beatles and never heard their music, they might read this book without a clue that they were intended to be song lyrics.

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    The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner

    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 1914-1965

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