2nd Annual Poems About Suicide Month

[rayheinrich]

Where is this a joke and where is this real
...
Human life is more valuable than that

This, sadly enough, is what they often write; just a day or two before.
(Though, all things considered, the herd does need thinning.)

PS you ever bothered to figure out how many of your entrants are dead by there own hand

Poll: Did you die by your own hand?

[ ] Yes  
[ ] No  
[ ] I can't press the keys, my fingers seem to pass right through them.

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Urine-sane

Outside a piss yellow asylum,
suicide taints the sunflowers-
alas, the ochre canvases
that could have been.

Cunning poem.

Keep orig. including 'and'.
When you talk in the "real" world, do you drop your "and" 's??
F'ing poetry geeks, always trying to change the language.

...though just hate "alas".
While it was good enough for Yorick and Caesar; it should remain interred with their bones.

" Oft' " (speaking generally) is shriekingly edge-cut prescience.

Various ochre/ocher stuffs:

'Ochre' and 'ocher' are both accepted spellings.
   Ochre - About 10,100,000 google results
   Ocher - About 535,000 google results
So 'ochre' (sitting at 95%) is a massive winner in the playoffs.

Middle English - oker
Middle French - ocre
Latin - ochra
Greek - ochra, from feminine of ochros (yellow).

Ochre is among the most permanent of colors. It's one of the many
colored earths - a clay stained with coloring minerals.
Hydrous iron oxide imparts the yellow color and the anhydrous iron
oxide the red color. The amount of iron oxide (Fe2O3) in ochre is
quite variable. It may be as low as about 20%, going up to 70%.

Obsolete meaning: money, especially gold coin.


Ochre okra:


Ochre orka: