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On the Occasion of a Death by Suicide

A delicate subject, followed in academic journals:
some propose the mind hovers above the brain,
others, Materialists, have it kit & kaboodle.

Some, past theory, merely aim up
through the mouth.
Fact/pain - we all know the general direction.

A neighbor, one who assumes odd jobs, cleaned up the mess.
I imagine him standing on a chair, stretched,
picking the shards of skull from the ceiling.

I can follow him this far: the evidence
each piece by itself. Right at the last
second my thoughts scatter.