<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=368789" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Man In The Dead Machine</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">High on a slope in New Guinea<br>The Grumman Hellcat<br>lodges among bright vines<br>as thick as arms. In 1943,<br>the clenched hand of a pilot<br>glided it here<br>where no one has ever been. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">In the cockpit, the helmeted<br>skeleton sits<br>upright, held<br>by dry sinews at neck<br>and shoulder, and webbing<br>that straps the pelvic cross<br>to the cracked<br>leather of the seat, and the breastbone<br>to the canvas cover<br>of the parachute. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Or say the shrapnel<br>missed him, he flew<br>back to the carrier, and every<br>morning takes the train, his pale<br>hands on the black case, and sits<br>upright, held<br>by the firm webbing.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Donald+Hall">Donald Hall</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=368789" data-title="The Man In The Dead Machine de Donald Hall" data-description="High on a slope in New Guinea The Grumman Hellcat lodges among bright vines as thick as arms. In 1943, the clenched hand of a pilot glided it here where no one has ever been. In the cockpit, the helmeted skeleton sits upright, held by dry sinews..."></div> </div> </div>

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