4th Annual Poems About Suicide Month

[QDeathstar]

This fireworks show is a secret space war. I like it ray. I like it. Between cats pissing on the controls and this I feel like you might have the basic frame work for a 1984 meets Aliens novella.

Oh and uh.... A suicide poem fresh off the toilet bowl.

Suicided
I jumped and fell
Splat. That's the end of
that. Tada.

[rayheinrich]

(Thanks Q)


                                < chainsaws >
               
                when employed as a suicide device
                (even with thorough preparation and skillful execution)
                are messy

[QDeathstar]

SOURCE: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/hom...25503.html

[billy]

i came
i saw
i cut

i cut
i saw
i came

[just mercedes]

This is the most bizarre double suicide I've ever heard of.

http://www.upi.com/Archives/1987/10/31/L...562654800/

[dukealien]

In the Gunroom


This is ridiculous.

First, the choice:
shotgun, rifle pistol.
Shotgun: messy, muzzle
too big to get into mouth
easily.
Rifle: heard of it done
by a guy in the unit
and they’re short enough these days
it doesn’t take a double-jointed
big toe like a musket.
Then all the trouble -
load a magazine,
cycle action,
turn it around.
And then there’s overpenetration:
someone
else
could get hurt.
Pistol, then: much more practical
automatic - all the loading
and cycling, like the rifle
and the danger of taking the thing
out of battery by pressure
on the slide or barrel
leading to embarrassing click
and the grip safety...
Okay, revolver.  Load one
right or left - Smith or Colt?
Idiot!  Load one on each side
it’s not as if you only have
one shot.  I mean, one cartridge.
Fine.  Back to mechanics:
double action is right out,
the muzzle will wobble all over
trying to pull the trigger through
with a thumb.
So single action, which will leave
me standing in the gunroom with
a loaded cocked revolver.
Damn!  I can’t do this
against all the ingrained
weapon safety training
even if I could point
the muzzle at a part
of the body.
Thought this would be easy
with such a supply of means
right here to hand
but it’s not working.
Should be trivial
but no go.

At least there are no
hesitation marks - that
would be embarrassing as hell.
Easier to take
a stroll across the Interstate
at rush hour
(ask forgiveness in advance
from the poor sucker who gets
me as a radiator ornament)
but they have fences
it’s as if they KNEW.

Still trying to get in the mood here, but it's so difficult!

[Lizzie]

Damn!  I can’t do this
against all the ingrained
weapon safety training

Ain't that the frickin' truth.

No hesitations marks, yes, but I'll bet people get all sorts of funky injuries because they flinched right before they pulled the trigger.

[rayheinrich]

In the Gunroom

    I'm impressed by your gun knowledge (won't bother to point out a few quibbles).
    That freeway thing can easily get the people in the car killed... even the truck. Subway?
    No, there have been people killed who jumped down to help. Trains, out from the city, traveling fast,
    best bet... but sometimes you have to wait a long time. Suicide may be fine, but boredom?

---

Damn!  I can’t do this
against all the ingrained
weapon safety training

Ain't that the frickin' truth.

No hesitations marks, yes, but I'll bet people get all sorts of funky injuries because they flinched right before they pulled the trigger.

And not just the hesitation. You really have to know where to aim. A lot of people place the muzzle to the side of
the eye... there's no brain there! The bullet goes through both eyes, blinding them, but they easily survive. I know
this because a co-worker did just this. The challenge, he said, of recovering, of learning how to survive being blind,
saved him.

[Achebe]

...  Back to mechanics:
double action is right out,
the muzzle will wobble all over
trying to pull the trigger through
with a thumb.
So single action, which will leave
me standing in the gunroom with
a loaded cocked revolver.
Damn!  I can’t do this
against all the ingrained
weapon safety training

this is brilliant. I wonder if splitting the last 2 lines as ...all the / ingrained / weapon safety training and ending the poem there might not be a better idea. it's a bit of a comedown from there.

[Tiger the Lion]

may morning sun
glories through the window
unwelcome

[Todd]

may morning sun
glories through the window
unwelcome

Love the last line!

[rayheinrich]

    this day and this one and this one...

    today

    i've gained the power

    to stop this infinitum  

[Jana]

My hands ache
With the pain
of ten thousand heartbreaks
 
Feeling
the shame
Of ten thousand mistakes
 
Getting lost
 in the pool
That's become a crash-land
 
what can
 I do
You've let go of my hand
 
Most days I do well
Holding together
Holding it in
 
Then other days 
Dip a toe in
and I can't swim
 
I'm dying in a pool of words
That can't be said
and won't be heard

It's more than I can handle
And swallows me whole
This thousand words
That bears my soul
 
Can't let myself go there
Can't dredge up the past
Celebrate freedom
By lifting a glass
 
Can't sleep
up late again
Midnight pain comes crashing in

Stoned to death by memories 
There once lived a woman
Who now whispers through trees

[saltysami]

my emotions are drowing in the tears i weep
its been a couple of weeks 
you probably thing im dead or probably  wish i  was
i cant tell if im still alive after all ive tried
this is my emotion note 
are the flowers still blooming in the garden ive created ?
or are they dying like the grave i dug my self ?
its time i find a light i made myself, but after all these years i think it deflated ,the sun ,the world .and every flower that is bloomed all gone now, nothing to call home to these things in my brain.
this is my emotion note too scared to call it something else. i'm too lost in the world to replace the word with something i can keep in a cherished box  .
i lost the key just like i lost the way its time i find a light in this i made myself but grave i dug myself is too deep now
its time to find the only way out it doesn't need the key

[cloud]

all those people
down below
will see the impact
of bone through the heart
spine out the back

face first
jaw meets dirt
bag full of water
water leaks out
all over the floor
its messy
but not my problem now

[cloud]

enjoying the rot
cigarettes and leaves
all penetrate me
sitting in my head
warm autumn breeze

[QDeathstar]

The Lonely Terrorist

I contemplated committing
seppuku then calmly reconsidered-

A uhaul drawn over the crowd
oughtta make my Allah proud!

[QDeathstar]

The Lonely Terrorist

I contemplated committing
seppuku then calmly reconsidered-

A uhaul drawn over the crowd
oughtta make my Allah proud!

timely

http://www.cnn.com/2017/10/01/americas/e...index.html

[vagabond]

The Lonely Terrorist

I contemplated committing  
seppuku then calmly reconsidered-

A uhaul drawn over the crowd
oughtta make my Allah proud!

timely

http://www.cnn.com/2017/10/01/americas/e...index.html

nothing is known about the suspect? not how old, not where from,  but thank god we all are informed that there was an ISIS flag in the truck.
don´t tell me specifics about the suspect are not meant for public at this time (i agree) but then neither is the info about how the flag got there
btw: i also agree that the implication of this article is probably correct.. and no, i do not defend terrorism.

p.s. mods: feel free to move my post to the sewer where it belongs (if it even has a place somewhere)

[shemthepenman]

(re-post)

from meat and bone II

O, for the oblivion of oblivion 
to stem this perpetual flow of words 
that are only spent 
when all our vegetable thinking is done and dust!