To Friends Who Have Also Considered Suicide

To Friends Who Have Also Considered Suicide

(Written by: Phillis Webb)

It’s still a good idea

Its exercise is discipline

To remember to cross the street without looking

To remember not to jump when the car side swipes

To remember not to have clothes cleaned

To remember not to eat or want to eat

To consider the numerous ways of killing ones self

That is surely the finest exercise of the imagination

Death by drowning, sleeping pills, slashed wrists

Kitchen fumes, bullets through the brain or through

The stomach, hanging by the neck in the attic or basement

A clean frozen death, the ways are endless

And consider the drama, it’s better than a whole season

At Stratford when you think of the emotion of your family

Upon hearing the news and when you imagine

How embarrassed someone will be when the body is found

Okay... So first I would like to say to the people who know me and read my blog.  I am not suicidal... Please don't worry :) I do find this poem highly interesting though.  Just the logical look at something that is so illogical to most of us.  Do we look it at with disgust or pity?  You decide.