T H E E N D C O M M U N E

have you ever been told
that suicide is the
the summit of cowardice
and that its apparent egotism
negates and per se illegitimizes
itself?

then let us call it the apogee
of freedom, and the personal terrorism
of responsibility;
the hand
that which breaks middle fingers 
upward
in mockery and renunciation.

the apparent immorality
of self-death,
a cigarette butt 'neath
our heels
suicide
is the most basic right
of all---the voluntary death
of the hero.