Thursday, January 20, 2011

The Hike to Suicide Point

The Hike to Suicide Point

We are all on the walk to suicide

Some slow, some sudden
Some solo, some en masse
Suicide rises up from below

My cousin used car exhaust

John used a gun
I will use a motorbike
Or perhaps too much steak

Down the Canyon of Hell

Across the Snake at Two Corral
Uphill past the red lizard pictograph
And looking over the edge
To water a mile below
There is a point to suicide.

Kevin Nusser, Portland, OR