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Suicide
Robert L. Penick
I will take a trip tomorrow
out into the backyard where
I never go,
Amongst the tree and the stubble
of shrubs I failed to water
at critical times,
beyond the poodle graveyard
where two of my former dogs
were planted with great ceremony
to a little shaded spot
next to the leaning garage.
I will sit and drink while
enjoying a cool winter wind,
and think of cars and pretty women
I once possessed, before
the bank, circumstances, or
my own selfishness
removed them.
I will think of these things,
knowing why,
for people more sane and sensitive,
dying is easy.