Poems Inspired by Ernest Hemingway

Burrowing bitter statues of    
Deaf progeny stalled out    
over a sea of pining peripatetics  
Born into it;  
with feet that read like a Hemingway novel  
 
Intestinal inertia insulating the leagues of  
Internal Corruption conspiracies  
the communist combination digesting in obscurity    
cracked figment begging facade  
for material manifestation  
facade kicking godless eternity in the head    
the unexplored divided depths newly informed  
of cancerous cells in the water supply
prognosticating...

Hemingway and I.

I do not want re invent myself rather I would like to go back
to what I used to be before domestic demands took my time,
and dreams became like hole-in-one at a golf course.
I had to work to support a family of four and wearing a suit,
stole some time from family demands sitting in my garage
looking at my car...should I escape this domestic bliss?
Once my mates and I climbed trees I sat on an oak branch
told them when I grow up I will be a writer. Now that I´m old
I have my chance, but so much innocence has run into silt
I...

If Shakespeare were here  
you would be his tragedy      
     
Mozart and Beethoven      
you would be their symphony      
     
Galileo would gaze into the stars      
and give a planet your name      
     
Christopher Columbus      
would sail the ocean blue      
     
and Neil Armstrong      
would fly you to the moon      
     
while Hemingway writes      
a bestseller
all about you      
     
The Great Houdini      
would chain himself up      
and face...