Hemingway Never Did This

I read that he lost a suitcase full of manuscripts on atrain and that they never were recovered.

I can't match the agony of thisbut the other night I wrote a 3-page poemupon this computerand through my lack of diligence andpracticeand by playing around with commandson the menuI somehow managed to erase the poemforever.believe me, such a thing is difficult to doeven for a novicebut I somehow managed to I don't think this 3-pager was immortalbut there were some crazy wild lines,now gone bothers more than a touch, it's some-thing like knocking over a good bottle writing about it hardly makes a goodpoem.still,

I thought somehow you'd like toknow?if not, at least you've read this farand there could be better workdown the 's hope so, for your sakeandmine.