The Mailer Review/Volume 4, 2010/Hemingway Revisited: Difference between revisions
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<poem> | |||
Jake pissed | |||
with | |||
stern | |||
loneliness | |||
leaving | |||
a fierce | |||
smell | |||
of the past. | |||
His future | |||
was not | |||
so empty | |||
as he declared, | |||
a girl with | |||
music and grace | |||
tender of face | |||
was waiting | |||
for him. | |||
</poem> | |||
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| <poem> | |||
Hey— | |||
you | |||
sleep | |||
deep— | |||
but what a sight | |||
see | |||
you | |||
soon | |||
beautiful | |||
I hope | |||
Catherine | |||
found this note | |||
by her telephone | |||
on awakening | |||
in an empty bed | |||
after a one night | |||
stand and she called | |||
her best friend | |||
to say; | |||
Guess what? | |||
I feel like | |||
Earth | |||
Mother. | |||
</poem> | |||
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| <poem> | |||
Catherine never blushed | |||
until | |||
she smelled | |||
the fine cheat | |||
in | |||
the line | |||
of the succession | |||
and then | |||
she flushed | |||
furiously | |||
for she thought | |||
the smell | |||
adorable, | |||
it was | |||
so | |||
rich | |||
to rise | |||
from | |||
the poor. | |||
</poem> | |||
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| <poem> | |||
We really ought, Catherine said | |||
to be able to stay together | |||
without making love | |||
all the time. | |||
Yes, said Jake, | |||
I’m sure it’s my fault. | |||
Yes, she said smugly | |||
you smell so greedy | |||
and good | |||
Swarms and swarms | |||
of love | |||
smug, smug, smug | |||
</poem> | |||
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| <poem> | |||
You may not love me | |||
Jake said | |||
but I love you. | |||
Well, I love you, | |||
said Catherine | |||
so | |||
bad luck. | |||
They loved each other | |||
very much. | |||
They had not taken | |||
a good wash | |||
in three weeks. | |||
It would have been | |||
the next wrong | |||
to murdering | |||
a child. | |||
What the hell | |||
they were both | |||
thirty | |||
forty | |||
tired, tried, | |||
sad, foul | |||
They thought they | |||
had betrayed | |||
something | |||
forever, | |||
And She forgave them. | |||
Or thus they hoped. | |||
So, bad luck | |||
muttered the | |||
horror | |||
of old | |||
habit, | |||
We will die | |||
if we lose | |||
our love. | |||
</poem> | |||
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| <poem> | |||
Mangled, morgued | |||
birched and bruted | |||
they were | |||
hawks | |||
upon the mood | |||
of their | |||
own blessing. | |||
So they scattered, | |||
waiting | |||
for the | |||
curse. | |||
Slack the yaws | |||
tight the jaws | |||
hurricane | |||
the air | |||
of waiting | |||
</poem> | |||
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