Suicide
A sunny warm day in a modern downtown
Suits, ties, yuppies scurrying about
On the grass, just below the bridge I was crossing, a man paced.
At first I thought he was covered in paint. Maybe it was makeup.
I looked at the passing suits and back at the man.
He paced on the grass, arms, neck and shirt dark with blood.
I looked at the suits again. Surely if it were real, they would see.
They did not. Then I saw the knife in his back pocket and the broken skin on the neck.
The wrists I could understand. How could you slit your own throat and not die? How could you stab your chest and miss you heart? I looked at the suits and they mar