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