DEAD POETS SOCIETY
Men do it the hard way.
John Berrymore jumped from a bridge,
A victim of drink and the devil.
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Hart Crane jumped off a ship at sea.
No one knows why.
A better way to die?
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Randall Jarrell slit his wrist.
All he got was a scar.
Then jumped in front of a car.
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Vachel Lindsay chose
The house where he was born
To drink a bottle of lye.
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Women do it a softer way.
Sara Teasdale swallowed pills,
And simply went to sleep.
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As did Sylvia Plath,
Who gave her kids cookies and milk,
Then turned on the kitchen gas.
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Anne Sexton did the same,
But in a garage,
With the engine running.
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