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jwesley
Member Rara Avis
since 2000-04-30
Posts 7563
Spring, Texas

0 posted 2017-06-09 05:25 PM


Death Seeking An End

She shot herself!

And if that wasn't enough,
she shot me - first!

She died - I didn't.
But if being paralyzed
from the neck down
isn't death - what is?

I only hope
to live long enough
to spit on her grave.
Even better,
I'd like to dig her up
and scatter her bones
in a pen of a thousand pigs,
and feed them nothing
until the bones are gone,
and have come out
the other end.

I seethe inside
because I can do neither.
I can only burn with an anger
that knows no end,
every day,
twelve full hours,
every night
that goes on forever.

She shot herself!
After she shot me.
She died.
I didn't.

Now I am Death
not knowing how
to call it
an end.

© wesley james beard, jr.
june 8, 2017


[This message has been edited by jwesley (06-09-2017 09:18 PM).]

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Poet In Pink
Senior Member
Posts 1066
MI
1 posted 2017-06-09 06:10 PM


Wow J this really gave me the chills as I read it ~ That would be horrible to have to go through something like that ~ Alana
Lori Grosser Rhoden
Member Patricius
since 2009-10-10
Posts 10202
Fair to middlin' of nowhere
2 posted 2017-06-09 06:29 PM


Jimmy,
Simply shocking! Outside your typical perimeters. Way to push the envelope!
Nice flex of the pen. ~L

jjote
Senior Member
since 2002-12-25
Posts 1088
Ontario, Canada
3 posted 2017-06-09 10:27 PM


a horrifying experience to go through...so vividly written, stays in the mind long after  reading it..
2islander2
Member Ascendant
since 2008-03-12
Posts 6825
by the sea
4 posted 2017-06-11 03:49 AM


terrible words, I can't imagine it could happen in real life, hope it wasn't you


yann

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