Every other time/I drowned/I lived/to tell/the tale. <br />This time/I leave/the telling/to you. <br />I consider/this/an end/in itself. <br />You may say/I'm/overcome/with despair/and dive/into/thin air. <br />You may say/I give/of myself/too freely/too nakedly. <br />You may say/I stripmine/my life/and let the topsoil/erode. <br />You may say/this slag/is all that's/left/of my heart. <br />You may say/I welcome/the blackness/beneath me. <br />You may say/this/final dive/is my/swan dive. <br />You may say/I enter/the water/with scarcely/a splash. <br />You may say/I leave/my last/act/to your/imagination. <br /> <br />My striptease/in darkness/is done./Tell it/how you will.<br /><br />Percy Dovetonsils<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/spalding-gray/
