Six Perfect Sentences

That was the year when Hemingway wrote six perfect sentences.

The year when Ulysses was published.

The year the California grizzly bear became extinct

And the last Barbary lion was killed in Morocco.

The Soviet Union was founded;

The Ottoman Empire was abolished.

The first men in three thousand years

Entered the tomb of Tutankhamun.

Mussolini and his Blackshirts marched on Rome,

While, in Paris, Gurdjieff opened his Institute

For the Harmonious Development of Man.

Michael Collins fell in an ambush in West Cork.

Walter Rathenau was assassinated in Berlin.

The Turks massacred the Greeks in Smyrna.

A twenty-ton meteorite landed in Virginia.

Mohandas Gandhi was sentenced to prison

For “sedition against the British Crown.”

And Hemingway managed six perfect lines.