-after Brittany Maynard
1. Happiness, I guess, is a warm Seconal: sticky on your lips, wrapped like cotton around dirty November eyes. 2. Good poison. Take one capsule with gin & Vermouth, preferably cold as stained glass. 3. Swallow on an empty stomach. That way you'll feel God. 4. Sip hot milk slowly. Try not to think about how the white glistens – a fat tumor. 5. Bite down. Finish your milk. Stop making sense. 6. Let the barbiturate suck you alive. Escape into the Ponderosas. 7. Remember the first time Dan climbed into you, the first time you climbed Kilimanjaro. 8. Think about something blooming – dogwood in March, maybe. 9. Minutes between ingestion & unconsciousness: Median – 5. Range – 2 to 25. 10. Minutes between ingestion & death: Median – 15. Range – 5 minutes to 5.6 hours. 11. End of Life Concerns: Loss of dignity – 73.2%. 12. Wait. (Stanzas 9, 10, and 11 are taken verbatim from the Oregon Public Health Department’s 2013 statistics regarding Death with Dignity Act patients.)
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Jordan JamisonJordan Jamison is a kid growing up in Arizona. He digs poetry, but he's more concerned with passing his French class at the moment. His work has been published or is forthcoming in Bop Dead City, A Narrow Fellow, The Postscript Journal, Emerge Literary Journal, and others. He founded and now edits JAB Magazine with his best friends, whom he loves/hates very much. |