literature

suicide attempt

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Literature Text

From one side:

The tree, a branch,
no breath:

T-3:19

"Do you know where you are?"

In the crackling dark,
nowhere.


From the other:

My clothes are sawed off, the forty dollar bra,
the skirt from my cousin,

trashed at T-3

The tube goes sleekly down my throat, they start
pumping, still no heart beat

and the voice of the doctor goes up,

T-2

the crash cart, fumbled to my side,
the jerk, the collapse

T-1

The holes in my stomach closing, the tentative beep,
the life crept back into a body
story of my life. also, don't kid yourself. there's no white light. I was dead for 3 minutes and 19 seconds and I didn't see shit.
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BeyondJen's avatar
Very raw; I like that. It's powerful.
I liked the countdown, but at the end, I kept wanting to reverse it (count up).

The T-<insert number here> confused me at first. Then I thought, "T minus <insert time here>?" If that's what I was supposed to be thinking, exchanging the dash for "minus" might help.

Anyway, I liked this a lot.