Ok, ok, ok. I know.
One shouldn’t be promoting the idea of suicide as a logical answer to life’s problems. Even if it is. Especially if it is, in fact.
But I’m not really doing that. I’m just, as usual, fiddling around with a few words. I was reading a poem from Kate on a sort of similar subject and she takes a rather more optimistic view of things. But that’s Kate for you – always the optimist.
So this is just a bit of balance. A bit of Yang to her Yang
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Feeling jaded? Overawed?
Why not just jump overboard?
Into the current, come what may
Upstream, downstream, either way
Depart this life of tears and toil
Leap off your boat, this mortal coil
Floating gently with the stream
Blending there with life marine
Bring forth the darkness. Let it rain
Wash away this earthly pain
Happiness is what you find
When leaving sadness far behind
All will be blissful, by and large
So make your splash…. and …. Bon Voyage!
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But.
Lest anyone take me seriously may I implore you to cast your eye over previous posts of mine. There is ample evidence there that I am not to be taken seriously.
Ever.
Richmond Road 
It rhymes, it scans, who’s complaining.
=)
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like the rhymes but not the sentiment pops … as I have some super fragile readers it will be deleted! Please don’t take it personally but this is not a topic to be joked about … you have a strong attraction to bad taste.
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Well, yes I completely understand. Though ‘bad taste’ is not necessarily the way I see it.
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thanks for understanding, keep those rhymes coming … and add a little sunshine 🙂
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I wish you wouldn’t title your blog posts like that! Bad Brutus. We had a blogger here in the mental health community who DID kill herself late last fall. I’m not even over it yet (not that I expect myself to be). Can you make your titles a bit less scary?
Anyway, I don’t think you’re talking about suicide per se, or at least you don’t seem to be. It seems more to me like you’re wondering if life itself, and the afterlife (if or when we get there) should be surrendered to. That’s less about offing yourself and more about acceptance, I think? The poem is very sad!!
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Yeah, yeah. I’m copping a bit of flak over it. But, you know, these things don’t go away just by not talking about it.
And it was meant to just reflect an alternative response to things. It was meant to be playful, in its own way.
My own attitude to suicide, for the record, is that it does have a certain logic about it, but it remains the ultimate act of self-indulgence, and that, no matter what, one should se things through to the end, because there ain’t no nothing else.
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That’s a good attitude! 🙂 I liked the poem! It was sad in a good way! I should’ve clarified that!!
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Yes, for some, a forbidden topic. But for me, it came across as the satire I think you meant it to be. Besides, I tend to think all of us have had moments when we have considered “jumping overboard.” Of course, we don’t or we wouldn’t be here reading your poem. ❤
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Yes. And ‘jumping overboard’ may not necessarily mean departing life in a very literal sense. It might mean just getting off the bandwagon. Or it might mean professional or social suicide ….. when one just says, “You know? Fuck this. I’ve had enough. It’s time to do something else. I think I might just float along the river for a while.”
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It’s often a sensitive subject, but sometimes a bit of levity can open people up to discuss stuff. like this. (pat pat pat) it’s okay
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Don’t worry Judy. My skin is fairly thick. And yes, nothing should be taken too seriously.
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