Are You Planning To Kill Yourself
Are you planning to kill yourself?
Yes.
When?
As soon as I get home from school.
How?
My dad has a gun, and I know how to load it.
Deep breath now. I try to look calm, at this sad determined 9-year-old.
Mom takes him to a psychiatric hospital.
They want to keep him two weeks.
Dad has a fit.
Mom is cowed by dad.
He is back at school in three days.
We got him through the 5th grade, okay, alive.
This year is 6th grade for him.
He is in a psychiatric hospital now.
Slit his wrists last week.
Deep sigh.
Copyright © Caren Krutsinger | Year Posted 2018
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