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Requiem for Love & Sex

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Tonight, I’ll visit Death. For days I’ve sensed the arrival of this juncture but only realised the precise time a few minutes ago. Knew it as I climbed the last flight of stairs, ten steps in all – a countdown i counted… ten, nine… and then so soon- three, two, one- -to where I’m sliding my guilty key into the iron gate’s lock. The rooftop is my special place. I will miss my stony friend. A glitter of stars ensure that I know which way to fall. The wind tugs … Read the full article…

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Raindrop Suicide

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Doctor said that you might hurt yourself so, when I laid eyes on you, you lay on a white bed in a white room Your ghosts sat on your pillow, laughing and stabbing needles into your head I wanted to offer a word of comfort but couldn’t for you were as beautiful and insignificant as an abandoned raindrop on a window Instead, I said that it was cold outside You replied, “Inside too.”

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Fly

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The sun is calling out your name from a million miles away It’s an everyday feeling that you share with every one Didn’t you see it on T.V. (our species may die today)? How big is a problem when it’s seen from outer space? Would you hold my hand with faith, go with to that better place? Would you cry, lie down and die or murder your tears and fly? Every secret is a bullet and every death a shame We dream in rock ‘n roll, awake, point fingers and … Read the full article…

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The Suicide of 12-Year-Old Katelyn Davis

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THE SUICIDE OF 12-YEAR-OLD KATELYN DAVIS IS DISTURBING. For those of you who don’t know about it, she’s an American tweenager her broadcast her suicide online. She spoke for quite a while before she hung herself. She apologised many times (no child should ever feel the need to have to apologise so much). She made disquieting references to the internet characters Ben Drowned and Slenderman, seemingly unintentionally ensuring that she’ll become part of creepy legend. She got hold of her tears by taking deep breaths. She was committed to leaving- … Read the full article…

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Today: World Suicide Prevention Day

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Today is World Suicide Prevention Day. Been low, so deep that you can’t see life? I’ve been there and come through it. Others don’t. If you’re always depressed, get new habits. Only repetitive, positive actions will kidnap you back from your worst self. Here’s a piece i wrote from a hole almost 2 decades ago… my posting it now must mean i’m alive and that bad times can be made history… A REQUIEM FOR LOVE & SEX Tonight, i will visit death. For days i’ve sensed the arrival of this … Read the full article…

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Suicide in the Leaves of Knysna

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I never knew their names but yesterday, as I sat in the early chill outside, i enjoyed the company of Blue, Yellow, Green, Black, Grey and Orange birds as they chirpily accepted wriggly worms from the mud of overnight storms. It sent me to a happy mood which was interrupted by finding this poor fellow, discarded by nature before he or she could fly through Life. The fall from the tree made me think of suicide and how little we know about it in Knysna. We even call that cold, … Read the full article…

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Drugs: This Will Scare Your Kids!

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Yesterday, hours after i posted Trading Tik for Sex, someone who hadn’t read it told me that someone i used to work with had become a tik addict and committed suicide. Like many tragedies involving drugs in Knysna, it did not make the news. He was one of several white people i’ve known on the drug. I make the skin distinction because so many white people in Knysna don’t see it as their problem although rumours of tik abuse in the recent murder of Rosemary Theron raised eyebrows. I want … Read the full article…

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