I Committed Suicide Yesterday
A yes to my no
Mansion to my row
Too dark to grow
The fall came
Before the panic attack
After the pill pack
Eating the street like meat
Sweeping rats under my pillow
Gargoyles with a willow
Blood spraying from my brain
Wisdom insane
Television no brain
I never was me
Just an excuse for an oak tree
A cactus times three
The Ride
I asked the psychiatrist
Who earlier told me his name was
James Bond 007
If the police cruiser was there for me
He said no
A few moments later I am in
Wrist and ankle cuffs in the backseat
Driving down the Causeway, at 26 miles,
The longest bridge in the country
The cops telling me to take my medication
at Mandeville State Mental Hospital or I
Will never get out
I am as anxious as a guppy in
A school of sharks
A kindergartner on his first day
Not because I belong at Mandeville
But because I do not
The fall had begun precipitously
Soon, my beleaguered parents
Pulled-up in their 1986 green Oldsmobile Cutlass
The hurricane was now spinning
And I knew I would never be the same
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