Show Me the Place, 60

“Show me the place.”

Duke Senior in As You Like It (2.1)

60: Ketchum, Idaho; July 23, 2005

This is the town where Hemingway

Once lived—and where he finally died.

His house we saw that very day—

The place of Papa’s suicide.

We ate where he so often had*—

Here was his final meal on earth.

We saw the grave—a sight so sad—

But, oh, those books! Enduring worth!

*Cristina’s