Showing posts with label suicide. Show all posts
Showing posts with label suicide. Show all posts

03 December 2008

What Matters It, If Rope Or Garter?


Untitled. Robert And Shana ParkeHarrison (parkeharrison.com)

Since we can die but once, what matters it,
If rope or garter, poison, pistol, sword,
Slow-wasting sickness, or sudden burst
Of valve arterial in the noble parts,
Curtail the miseries of human life?
Though varied is the cause, the effect's the same:
All to one common dissolution tends.

---Thomas Chatterton





via: Calmlac and suyhnc
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25 November 2008

Langston Hughes Conjures Death In "Suicide's Note" Vanity Fair, 1925


Poet Langston Hughes in Harlem, June 1958
Robert W. Kelley, Life Photo Archives

The Langston Hughes piece about Memphis Minnie, reminded me sharply of this poem, published in Vanity Fair in 1925:

Langston Hughes (1902-1967)
                           
Suicide's Note


The calm,
Cool face of the river
Asked me for a kiss.




Representative Poetry Online/University Of Toronto Press
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