Tuesday, May 28, 2024

Not again May 16, 2012

 


I don’t stab myself in the hand.

I go for the heart.

 Chit chat, then butter knife

Not nearly sharp enough for all that.

The street walk filled with lonely talk,

Then my face smacked into brick

By my own hand?

That bar that night

To celebrate my birthday

Nobody else would,

A wine glass filled with

Sour trust,

I’m too scared,

She screeching on the cell phone

As I took the long walk in the dark,

Claiming to be gas lit,

Abandoned, I supposed its true

Going home to dangle

From her roof again,

And in my head, I think,

Not again,

Not with her,

When the last time

My true love

Put a bullet in her head

On the eve of St. Valentine’s Day,

Her own personal massacre

I still don’t understand

Why do all these great women

Want to end themselves

When they have so much

To live for

With or without me


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