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fredag den 20. juli 2012

There are no beautiful suicides

fuck the poets of the past, my friends. 
there are no beautiful suicides 
just cold corpses with shit in their pants 
& the end of the gifts.

"when i was 16, i had serious plans to kill myself. then i took a poetry class, & one day the teacher read us a poem he’d written. these lines, & the way he said it, looking at me -
IT SAVED MY LIFE"
fuck the poets of the past, my friends.
there are no beautiful suicides
just cold corpses with shit in their pants
& the end of the gifts.

Et gammelt anonymt postkort til PostSecret, om at der ingen smukke selvmord er - kun kolde lig med lort i bukserne. Det lyder til at det budskab afholdt indsenderen fra at forsøge selvmord. Der er jo ellers ingen mangel på digte, og andet, der har det budskab at selvmord nærmest er noget smukt, men det er noget af en romantisering. Et lig er sjældent noget smukt.


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