Suicide

[billy]

It's been a while since I've talked about you,
afraid of what the snobs might say,
those self-conscious academics i'm presuming these are other poets?

who panic their wings at such meat. who then try and talk the 1st person out of it
But just as Whitsun called Larkin nice ref to his wedding series (i only know because i just read whitsun weddings )
from his rest to wake the pen,

so we arrange to meet again.
Oh guileless three syllables i quite like this reference of suicide
does my stepmother live?

Haunting her old house
beside the field
where once her eldest child played.

Does she walk the streets a shade?
The savage God, said Alvarez this is also an extremely good ref to the subject matter.
nine years after Plath's leaving.

I'm not sure. All I know is
the fear of silence, the ignorant dimming,
the hush. A light bulb wanes in its white noose,

and so the soul is jimmied loose.

for me the last line detracts from a really good poem.
i do however have one nit. and that's larkin, i do see you using the whitsun wedding train journeys as a simile for death, specially their endings but for me it's a little out of character because the poem his mainly about new beginnings (which i'm sure suicide is )

that said i think i'd buy a book of poetry that was as well written, JMO) as this is.

ps, while alverez and his savage god was a great line, the plath line in connection with the deadly dead is i fear quite commonplace.
thanks for the read