Suicide Note

Here is a list of things
I do not want to do anymore:
Live Speak Press Sing
Lift Lay Sense Bore

Look Draw Consider Suffer
Taste Hate Prepare Entertain
Eat Adhere Hope Differ
Touch Laugh Dance Refrain

Hear Listen Play Burn
Forget Remember Use Bathe
Walk Run Grasp Learn
Freeze Write Read Solve

Cry Free See Think
Lie Feel Sleep Drink
or Die

A few lines written in a Children's Hospital the day after Christmas

"This is not a toy" upon the box,
but she told me to "hold it
like a dart." The fake skin
looks and feels a little like
a mousepad. The floors are
cold and sterile, a dry-erase
board on the wall says "Nurse:
Nina" and "Last Checked: 315."

Two Points

1. Symmetry

Life,
like
this,

is
not
un

beautiful

beca-
use
it
ends.

2. Cynicism

However, like the previous poem, life is ugly because it sucks.