4th Annual Poems About Suicide Month

[Todd]

Many Reasons With Poor Execution

Hannah Baker made a mix tape
so we would know why.
She didn’t use Morse code
on her dad’s walkie-talkie. 
She bypassed 8-track
for an all 80s response to death. 
If we still didn’t listen,
she’d make sure other people got copies,
and they also wouldn’t listen—
which was the problem.
The tape would be unplayed
in their glove compartment 
next to the one from 
that person pretending
to be their friend, like they all do,
when it was really
a pyramid scheme for selling 
insurance or antioxidants.
Even if they wanted to listen,
who owns a cassette player?
Hannah Baker made a mix tape 

so, that we’d want to die too.