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To Good Guys Dead

by Ernest Hemingway

Ernest Hemingway

They sucked us in;
King and country,
Christ Almighty
And the rest.
Patriotism,
Democracy,
Honor-
Words and phrases,
They either bitched or killed us.




Quotes of the Day

The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transformed.
• Jiddu Krishnamurti


Poems of the Day
  • Patience Worth
    Free
    by Patience Worth
    I am no longer afraid of acknowledgement. I have walked surely with a staff of doubt, Confident of my sureness! But that was not today. Lo, my heart Breaked, the walls about it crumbling,