This is a sad piece of the strange puzzle which is the history of my family

Transcendental Sonnet #1145:
The Suicide Pact

my great-aunt was deceived

Frank is dead...

No he is not

But he said
That he would shoot
Himself in the head
And for me to take all those pills...

Would that he had shot
Himself sis (and not miss)
Would that he were dead

You believed him and relieved
Him for he would deceive you
He had wanted to leave you
But thought your death would pay his bills

Now I lie broken in this bed...



+Steven Curtis Lance

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A postscript: She recovered, and her husband was later killed in a freak accident.