A porcupine skin, <br />Stiff with bad tanning, <br />It must have ended somewhere. <br />Stuffed horned owl <br />Pompous <br />Yellow eyed; <br />Chuck-wills-widow on a biased twig <br />Sooted with dust. <br />Piles of old magazines, <br />Drawers of boy's letters <br />And the line of love <br />They must have ended somewhere. <br />Yesterday's Tribune is gone <br />Along with youth <br />And the canoe that went to pieces on the beach <br />The year of the big storm <br />When the hotel burned down <br />At Seney, Michigan.<br /><br />Ernest Hemingway<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/along-with-youth/
