The Suicide Kid
The Suicide Kid - meaning Summary
Failed Summons to Death
The poem follows an older narrator who tries to summon death by drinking in the worst bars but repeatedly fails to die. Instead he is embraced by strangers, receives free drinks, and watches others struggle for life in hospitals. The irony sharpens his isolation and frustration: death refuses to cooperate, and the everyday grind endures. The closing age underlines weary resignation and the persistence of life.
Read Complete AnalysesI went to the worst of bars hoping to get killed. but all I could do was to get drunk again. worse, the bar patrons even ended up liking me. there I was trying to get pushed over the dark edge and I ended up with free drinks while somewhere else some poor son-of-a-bitch was in a hospital bed, tubes sticking out all over him as he fought like hell to live. nobody would help me die as the drinks kept coming, as the next day waited for me with its steel clamps, its stinking anonymity, its incogitant attitude. death doesn’t always come running when you call it, not even if you call it from a shining castle or from an ocean liner or from the best bar on earth (or the worst). such impertinence only makes the gods hesitate and delay. ask me: I’m 72.
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