RIP Liam Rector

[lovelineny.livejournal.com]

http://www.nypost.com/seven/08162007/news/regionalnews/top_n_y__poet_kills_self_regionalnews_peter_cox_____and_andy_geller.htm



The Remarkable Objectivity Of Your Old Friends

We did right by your death and went out,
Right away, to a public place to drink,
To be with each other, to face it.

We called other friends—the ones
Your mother hadn't called—and told them
What you had decided, and some said

What you did was right; it was the thing
You wanted and we'd just have to live
With that, that your life had been one

Long misery and they could see why you
Had chosen that, no matter what any of us
Thought about it, and anyway, one said,

Most of us abandoned each other a long
Time ago and we'd have to face that
If we had any hope of getting it right.

Comments

[melodily.livejournal.com]

Different perspective- I can't help but go "aww", not many people would understand, or be willing to understand, the reasons of which one commits suicide.

Saddening that he committed suicide, especially that line-- "I think of life as that tragic and embarrassing thing that takes place between the poems, films, and the songs I inhabit."

[aria-muse.livejournal.com]

so good

[speckofinfinity.livejournal.com]

The poem & the article are both impossibly tragic..

[sirfeste.livejournal.com]

i agree. crying now, at both.

[acreofbones.livejournal.com]

This was utterly lovely.

[adesina.livejournal.com]

It's been a very long time since I have had the patience to read through an entire poem, long or otherwise. This was beautiful. Exactly what I love-- one of the best kinds of poetry. I will now go looking for more Liam Rector. RIP.