Death Wish

[Lightning Rod]

it's not enough to have a death wish
problems arise
how do you finance a suicide?

you can't just check out for free
liabilities and attachments have accrued
the years have been rude to the bottom line

My accountants tell me I can't afford to die
but before I try, I must
take account of my accountants

[gypsyjoker]

I never had a death wish
the wish had me

with my pockets full of irony
I walked the shore of the dark sea within

thinking no mistake is serious
so long it's not permanent

Vonnegut wanted to sue American tobacoo company because they were selling a defective product.

The warning labels promised him a hideous death
but he was still alive after smoking sixty years.

It is a good thing I am a procrastinator all the times I have considered suicide and kept putting it off.

Now it is too late
Smoke um if you got um

I hate messy suicides like HST
Seems like the least one can do is clean up your own mess
If i ever do commit suicide it will be by sailboat.

Nice pome
I mean it sounds like a poem
don't mind mine
by now you know how sick my humor is
A woman from Canada once told me my sense of humor would get me arrested there for hate speech.

Leaning
Leaning on the everlasting
right to free speech
it seems like all we got left in the land of the homesick and the brave.

[Lightning Rod]

jack, for not being a poet, you sure can look into the heart of a poem

I was smoking a Pall Mall and thinking about Vonnegut when I wrote this ditty. Truly I was. You are psychic. (or just twisted...haha)

This is slow, expensive suicide. HST took the economy class ticket. You can buy a bullet for less than it costs for a deck of smokes.

[gypsyjoker]

Gonzo was fortunate to have such a loving family, such a mess he left for them to clean up. Or maybe they hired one of those crime site clean up companies.

A bullet is cheaper than a quart of milk or a loaf of bread or a life saving antibiotic. and "a bullet is cheaper than a divorce."
Ten four old friend, bullets are cheap, I suppose that is why we use them to solve so many problems.

"After me the savage god" No idea who wrote that or what poem it is from.

[gypsyjoker]

I misquoted
should have been
"after us the savage god"

http://www.enotes.com/famous-quotes/aft ... aine-after

[saw]

this is really funny....the notion of being too poor to end it all

Chris Rock does this routine where he says every bullet should cost
5 thousand dollars....and goes on to say, " I'm gonna kill you as soon as I get the money, I'm gonna get a second job, put my money in the bank, and you're a dead man!" ( paraphrased) ....but that's the gist..

good work...

[gypsyjoker]

it's not enough to have a death wish
problems arise
how do you finance a suicide?

Sorry I got sidetracked Clay
I forgot this post was not really about suicide
It was about Sylvia Plath and poetry.

Funny stuff
your killing me

[gypsyjoker]

I have not lost my sense of humor
suicide been a hobby of mine since I was eight years old

hard for me to be hip
in the grip
of a suicide trip

human behavior overdetermined they say
Freud the master of understatement
found it remarkable the
"overcoming of the instinct which compels every living thing to cling to life"


and then he over came
himself
some say it was the cancer
but I think it was the war
RIP uncle Siggie
september 1939


very remarkable
to overcome
the compelling instinct
to cling to life

to cast out
and punish
the self for moral inferiority
so sue side me

Fly away
from the present
presence
I got stoned and I missed it

Fly away
from the lies that bind
wash the sleep from my eyes
Am I awake yet?

"After all these years
I am still alive
cut me loose
let me fly" ---jitterbug

Just a Go it don't mean nothing
drive on
or
Fly Away

[mnaz]

True enough.

That always seemed perhaps the ultimate slap... too poor to even check out.

[gypsyjoker]

The pride of many poor black people, I have read, is their small insurance policies to pay for their funerals.
Suicide or not
I would love to have one of those insurance policies. I keep putting it off.