uncomfortable hemingway says
               he couldnt drown out steins voice
                                             & mythology of modernism                              like
bacon in a war                                                      they took on aliases & restrained
went into parliament                                                                             avenging
men become women                                                                 the wings go down
in defeat

                                                                                       creating intimate histories
                                                        irritations
                          knowing every lifes a red line
                                                        he was smoking proud