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Ketchum, Idaho

by Joe Cramer

In Ketchum, Idaho

No laughing hyena

As if on Kilimanjaro.

Just a ghastly scene of death

To be awakened by the

Sound of shotgun blast.

A pool of brain material

laced with blood on linoleum

In the foyer of that house.

What a waste, indeed.

02/15/1989

Author's Note: Hemingway always haunts me, in word and in life.

Posted on 12/28/2006
Copyright © 2026 Joe Cramer

Member Comments on this Poem
Posted by Carissa Dewey on 02/05/08 at 01:47 AM

Joe, I agree about the haunting feeling of Hemingway. I lived an hour outside of Ketchum and was everyday awestruck by the beauty that surrounded me. And on the visits I made to his grave and memorial I would always think about how he was able to take his own life while surrounded by such beauty and simplicity, it was a haunting feeling indeed. I guess this is why I like this poem, I enjoyed that you painted a gruesome picture without any mention of his natural surroundings only his manmade material ones.

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