The Two Lives of Ernest Hemingway
“In order to write about life, first you
must live it,” said Ernest Hemingway,
my high school hero and literary
mentor who taught me the mystery
of man’s dual nature.
Born with a deep hunger for life,
Hemingway lived his life to the fullest;
and born with a passion to write,
Hemingway lived to write about his
life as he lived it.
Fishing with his father when just a boy,
and hunting too, Hemingway went on
to become a big game hunter and world
class writer more famous for his name
than his great stories.
He married his first wife on the rebound,
and his second for play, but his third wife
rode the Hemingway name and walked
away, and his fourth wife suffered him
to the bitter end of his Nobel fame.
Full of mischief and pain and too broken
to live, Hemingway blew his brains out
with his favorite shotgun, leaving a record
of both his lives, not knowing which life
was real, and which was fiction.
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