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Hemmingway chopped out

those crisp sentences

and short paragraphs

directly masturbating

onto an innocent page

and so enamored

the bullfighter

and war correspondence

sipping tea in Paris

we creamed all over ourselves

ready to glorify

the fiction; the masochism

and what was all too often

a fraud of our own creation

to this day,

I remained convinced

that no one exposed Ernest

in the end

Ernie exposed us

and revealed a fraud

most of us

can still not admit