I Am Committing Suicide

March, 1956

I am Committing SuicideI am sitting here thinking about suicide which I am going to commit as soon as I get drunk enough to lose the remaining inhibitions that prevent me from doing it. I am going up on Geronimo's Mesa and jump off the high ledge of red sandstone at Lover's Leap where, according to legend, two thwarted young Apache lovers jumped to death hand in hand. I will not jump hand in hand with anyone. I will jump alone as soon as I can get some little trigger of compulsion ready to force...