Like Hemingway
Like Hemingway,
are we destined to fall – follow
in our parents’ footsteps?
My sister is a nurse,
like my mother before her.
Does this mean I am meant
to drift and fade and
drown in my self-hate?
Am I my father?
He – we leave huge footprints.
Like Hemingway,
is this the shotgun’s barrel against my teeth?
are we destined to fall – follow
in our parents’ footsteps?
My sister is a nurse,
like my mother before her.
Does this mean I am meant
to drift and fade and
drown in my self-hate?
Am I my father?
He – we leave huge footprints.
Like Hemingway,
is this the shotgun’s barrel against my teeth?
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"Dying is only bad when it takes a long time and hurts so much that it humiliates you." Ernest Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls, (1940, p. 468)