. . .and Vladimir
> Maiakovski.
> "Suicidal poets use a large number of I's and a low
> number of references to other people or pronouns,"
> said Pennebaker. "This holds up across their
> careers,
> not just as they are approaching suicide." In
> addition, the suicidal poets tended to decrease
> their
> use of communication words such as "talk," "share"
> and
> "listen" over time, while the non-suicidal poets
> tended to increase their use of such words.
But I'd miss something like this:
About Me [9 self references]
Children dying make me happy. Notice: behind my nose's hushed sighs laughter's vast vague foamy waves roll in. But I hang out in the reading room of the streets, flipping the pages of the dictionary whose words sound like eight-penny coffin nails
hammered in. Midnight's humid fingers grad my prick, a splintered fence looks like the enemy's teeth, and the schizoid cathedral gallops like hail on the dome's bald gold head. I'll never know why I cruised this night of unredeemed identity, of imagery that can't describe the shape of my agony. I've seen Christ extract himself from the nails
on an icon -- first feet, then left hand, then right, and the weeping mud kiss the hem of his gown.
-- Vladimir Mayakovsky (killed by Kapitalism?)
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