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John Gallaher

38 years old
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Author of the book of poetry Gentlemen in Turbans, Ladies in Cauls. Poems appear in recent issues of Boston Review, Iowa Review, and others.


Bomb Went Off

The bomb went off 'prematurely,’ ripping through a police van.  The bomb went off in a popular cafe in Ein al-Helweh.  When the bomb went off there was a loud noise.  He called May 15 the day the bomb went off.  While the first bomb went off at Juwett Memorial Baptist Church at Ongole in Prakasam district of Andhra Pradesh at around 8.30 a.m., the second blast took place while emergency personnel were helping the wounded.  It looks like a bomb went off.  He and his girlfriend Kerry O'Shaughnessy, 28, would have been in the Sari club when the bomb went off.  Another bomb went off on a park bench near the US Embassy, injuring nine people.  The bomb went off before sunrise, blowing out windows blocks away, shaking neighbors from their sleep.  Two bombs were planted in the schoolyard; the first bomb went off at about 9:45 a.m. in a powerful explosion which blew out some of the windows of the school.  And the bomb went off.  The first priority was to get as much distance as he possibly could before the bomb went off.  A bomb went off in Lhasa on Monday, the sixth reported explosion in the city in the last nine months.  He [J. Robert Oppenheimer] and I were lying down right next to each other flat on the desert right outside the control [room] at the time the bomb went off.  A fire-fight broke out and one VC was last seen firing into the smoking back seat of his car when the bomb went off.  The bomb went off between 10 and 11 in the evening on 24 June, near the City Public Security Bureau (PSB) Building, which is situated about one kilometer north.  The bomb went off at the wrong time.  I don't think they were inside at the time but they were about to enter the club when the bomb went off.  This car bomb went off outside the South African Air Force HQ in Pretoria.  I lived in the YMCA, about 100 meters from where this bomb went off.  Tubbs said the warning call made some 23 minutes before the bomb went off was a simple, non-specific message.  Then on Saturday May 1, another bomb went off at a pub in Makindye and injured 5 people.  There were four days of peace before the bomb went off.  Labourer Lakshmi, 26, recalled that she and her 18-month-old daughter Nitya had barely returned from a tea stall close to the eatery when the bomb went off.  After the bomb went off, the men sprayed gunfire on fleeing passengers.  When the bomb went off we were kneeling in the bottom of it.  


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