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
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