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1943Author(s): Paul NelsonSource: The Iowa Review, Vol. 3, No. 2 (Spring, 1972), p. 16Published by: University of IowaStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/20157859 .
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1943
We learned that men dump stuff
the color of the stains
under the bathroom faucet
into hoppers to purify our water
The stuff made gas
We considered that
as we skirted the pumping station
on the way to fish from the iron bridge
throbbing sUghtly from the nearby dynamos
It was a strange word
like Grandfather coughing or the stoveburner turning on
That same year we learned immunity and guessed that's what the men had
who worked behind the high fence without masks or wives or children
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