A Poem a Day

The Hemingways collection, one at a time.

I’m Darren Samuelsohn, and this is love, journalism. Today’s the first of 10 straight days from the new book: Please, God, Let There Be a Bowling Alley in Heaven.

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My first book arrived last week. This poem is where it started — the one that gave the whole collection its name.

One page, one sitting. The title’s chosen before you start writing. The trick is finding where it actually belongs in the piece.

Please, God, Let There Be a Bowling Alley in Heaven

Declarations of donut independence. Rise up and do justice to the doughy compartments of endless fudge and life and grins into a rhyme of cereals and commercials. I’m so sorry childhood ever ends. And please, god, let there be a bowling alley in heaven.

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