Deborah Digges

I wrote a little poem this morning:

JUMPING DEATH

Suicides
remind me of astronauts.
Who but the alien brave amongst us
would want to fall
upwards,flung out
of our embracing orbit,
into that un-
encompassable,
well before the time
when we all,
by dint of cataclysm,
shall be forced to?


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