[from] On Weddynge Gyftes (by Ernest Hemingway)

U.S. Army photo of Ernest Hemingway in Milan, 1918

Three traveling clocks
Tick
On the mantlepiece
Comma
But the young man is starving.

[written 1921 in Chicago, published 17 December 1921 in the Toronto Star Weekly]

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Ultimately (by Ernest Hemingway)

U.S. Army photo of Ernest Hemingway in Milan, 1918

Ultimately
a poem by Ernest Hemingway

He tried to spit out the truth;
Dry mouthed at first,
He drooled and slobbed in the end;
Truth dribbling his chin.


[written c. 1921, originally published in the June 1922 issue of Double-Dealer]



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