4th Annual Poems About Suicide Month

[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?

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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.