2nd Annual Poems About Suicide Month

[ChristopherSea]

Where is this a joke and where is this real
How can you talk about ending one's life by self volition here
I have thought about ending my own life
I haven't done it yet, and hopefully I won't

If you need to end it all then find help
Run to you find what you need
There is no catheters here
Those of us who know find our way or we don't

Suicide is real, it ends the life of many poets
Cuts off their words and ideas
Don't let it become a joke by being a prize
Human life is more valuable than that

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

My entry is no joke, it emphasizes the tragic loss of one of the world's most brilliant post-impressionists. I am pissed that the poor devil pissed his life away! I can't even fathom how much further he could have gone. Read it again:

Urine-sane

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

Sorry Tom, Ray is making me restore the 'and.' He's throwing the illegal use of the archaic word 'alas' card at me!

Urine-sane

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