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By Jack Joseph Smith

oh so what Take a look Suicide is a youngster Hemingway and London Were the best white men you can get; sissies, cause there is nothing wrong with going to Hell first. that would be here I guess Oh yeah,. of course, Those two writers I mentioned, The white ones, one forty and the other seventy I think Older, so mostly dummer than you

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This page sneers at literary heroics and suicide-romance, dragging famous writers down into an earthly hell.

Its rough talk is purposeful. By mocking Hemingway and London while calling this world Hell first, the poem rejects grand tragic posturing and treats despair as already embedded in ordinary life.

Claude

'''Hemingway and London as 'the best white men you can get; sissies, cause there is nothing wrong with going to Hell first.' One at forty, the other seventy -- 'older, so mostly dummer than you.' A cheerful dismissal of suicide-cult machismo.'''