| I've
been ruminating lately on the matter of assisted
suicide. Or, more particularly, on the possibility
of finding an accomplice to assist in concluding
my wretched tenure on the planet.
I
want someone to shoot me. Preferably someone proficient
in the grubby art of execution.
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 D.W.
Burke |
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Someone
who could administer a single tidy shot to the
temple sufficient to liberate my soul from its
present anatomical host, even if the resultant
mess of shattered bone and brain (never mind the
Pollock-like abstractions engendered by the spontaneous
explosion of so much blood) would render this
modest one-bedroom apartment uninhabitable again
without an extensive makeover, the very fact of
which would reduce the dear landlord, niggardly
creature that he is, to that peculiar kind of
sweaty, bug-eyed madness that possesses those
from whom the subtraction of any sum of capital
equates to the removal of a vital organ.
At
this juncture I should express my scepticism of
the whole transcendent soul thing. It's not a
concept to which I wholly subscribe, though I
refuse to completely dismiss it on the premise
that I have yet to encounter a dead person who
could offer proof or otherwise.
But
I was raised a Catholic and Catholicism is a bit
like echolalia, that form of Tourette's characterised
by vocal tics which involves the repitition of
words of phrases used by others.
In
the case of the Catholic, lapsed or not, this
assumes the form of a mythical language drilled
into us by diligent, determined disciples of God
from the baptisimal font through the confessional
to the crypt.
I
still look for heaven whenever I manage to contain
my phobia of flying. And I won't venture too far
beneath the surface of the earth on the admittedly
outside chance that I might be cornered by one
of Satan's little helpers. Such is the omnipotence
of indoctrination into the one true faith. But
I digress.
I
was discussing assisted suicide. Confiding in
you my search for a collaborator. A trigger man,
if you will. Or woman. Sexual orientation, indeed
any identity tag, is irrelevant. Just make it
quick, will you?
Links
D.W.
Burke - Folk / Acoustic
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