04-12-2019, 08:42 AM
For Douglas Kelley
We'll never know if that cyanide
was part of an unwritten plan
or a leftover souvenir,
but on New Years Day 1958,
its effectiveness couldn't be questioned.
Waking the type of depression
that has a hard time sleeping,
hot element burned his note-taking hand,
which probably reeked of a bourbon
only sold in America-
no wife should have to search
her dead husband's pockets for a suicide note,
no son should have to watch his father die.
We'll never know if that cyanide
was part of an unwritten plan
or a leftover souvenir,
but on New Years Day 1958,
its effectiveness couldn't be questioned.
Waking the type of depression
that has a hard time sleeping,
hot element burned his note-taking hand,
which probably reeked of a bourbon
only sold in America-
no wife should have to search
her dead husband's pockets for a suicide note,
no son should have to watch his father die.
Time is the best editor.