Dorothy Doyle Mienko

SUICIDE

In the factual simplicity
of suicide
we close the windows
pull down the garage door
uncap the Valium
and push away the stars

the same way we masturbate
from too much need
we put our fingers in dark hair
and they glitter

Location: Grand Rapids, Michigan Email: ddm525@home.com Publications: Stirring, etc.

Goodbyes of Chalk Your Organic Garden Point of Entry Downtown Litmus -- Ballad of a Thin Cigarette this is a poem Evening Beginning The End An Old Japanese Poet Of This World For Friends Missing in Action Suicide The Cameo old man with a fly

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