suicide                                                    

 
  This will be my last posting here
   for, tomorrow, I'll be dead
   by well-honed blade applied to wrist
   or several grains subdural lead . . .

  The method of my suicide
   matters not.  I will be gone;
   consider, thus, the verse you read
   my version of Swan Song . . .

  I leave addresses in this box
   to whom sympathies may be sent.
   Tell them, "we liked the writing
   she shared here, before she went . . ."

  Thank you, all, for comments
   offered toward my poetry.
   Though my body shall be quiet and cold
   you have known the heart of me.

  Continue your poetic ventures;
   hail my family if you must.
   I only know my chance for fame
   is alive, now that I again am dust . . .   


�K.E.Cline, 03/1996
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