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Mutlu
by Gary E. Andrews - 04/15/24 07:08 PM
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Justified Suicide.©-MFB III
She tried to jump off the Blue River bridge tilting forward into the thin air and she would have fallen to her death if I hadn't stopped her there. I started to speak, but I'd barely said, "Why?" when she turned, and spoke sadly to me.... "Mister I'm tired of living my life in a world full of sheer misery."
Chorus~
The world is no longer a good friend you see... so I'm taking a chance and just setting it free, I'm hoping there's somewhere that I'd rather be, cause my current life it's killing me.
I've got family I'd miss..... but they've nothing to eat, unemployment is high, and I've worn out my feet the rent's overdue, soon we'll be on the street." "I kept trying to fight, finding only defeat." there's not much left to do, and truth is ...I am beat.
"The newspapers tell me that things will get worse it seems the whole world's living under a curse with nuclear stockpiles and destruction that's planned and pollution that slowly is poisoning our land."
"So much murder and rape. while we all live in fear and the laws only help to get criminals clear there is not much to hope for in this coming year so I felt it was high time to step out if here!"
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This world is no longer a good friend you see... so I'm taking a chance and just setting it free, still I'm hoping there's somewhere that I'd rather be, cause my current life it's killing me.
Well...........
the things that she'd said
were not strangers to me my life too, had known
constant bad weather
so I reached over gently
and took up her hand......
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then she and I jumped off together!
MFB III Productions ArtWhimsically Yours Studio (c)-1967
....aint it funny how this all still applies today.
Last edited by MFB III; 10/15/10 05:47 PM.
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But unemployment wasn't that high in 1967, at least not for most mainstream folks. Is that when this was originally written? I am not sure I agree with the entire message of this one but do agree with some of it.
Peace, Brian
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well, I grew up in the projects and we had a lotta poppas outta work, laid off, or on strike for whatever reason. So perhaps in my Thin-sulated world of less, I didn't realize there was so much more, so I penned some of my sorrows even at the early age of 15, and yet it taught me that suicide is really never justified, it's just simply quitting before any better chances come along. Thanks for your input, I really appreciate it.
~~~~~MFB III
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A few days ago, on a temporary job I was on, a woman was telling me that she heard somewhere that if things get as bad now as they were in the Great Depression that there would be a considerable rise in suicides. I somewhat believe that if for no other reason than that we have become the "I Deserve It" society who would have a very hard time adjusting to doing without.
Peace, Brian
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MFB--
INTERESTING!
YOU DIDN'T FINISH--Hitting the cold water--a little pain--SINKING to the BOTTOM to never come up--Then DARKNESS and .................................. NOTHING.
Write on BRO'--
Mackie
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Yeah beechnut, we might all end up on some beach to keep warm and breaking some coco-Nuts to eat. The eight years of a Bush in the hand and a bug bird to the people has killed a lot of the working man's dreams....whether you are a repug or demoncrat....Oh, well, the only thing that's gonna be slit around my house is any terror-wrists tight across thier useless necks if they ever get that far...lol ~~~MFB III
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Hey Mackie, I didn't write an afterword because it would have simply been "Glub, Glub, Glub!!" But I did have a splash of Vodka on the rocks after writing this. Thanks for checking in, course the only room I have left is on the thirteenth floor, but there is a ledge...LMAO~~~MFB III
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