Good life
With lies
Children
Mothers
**** them
Steal
Violence and violence
Live in peace
Die in peace
Betrayed
So terribly betrayed
Be kind to children
Be kind to seniors
Take the potion
We are not committing suicide
Revolutionary act
Do not take our death in vain
Death is not a fearful thing
It’s living that’s fearful
Choose my own kind of death
I’m tired
I’m tired of…
Tired of it
So many people’s lives in my hands
Don’t want your life in my hands
Now is the dispensation of judgement
Revolutionary suicide council
Self-destruction
Because I’m a prophet
Died every day to give you peace
Still not had any peace
Still not the kind of peace I wanted to give
Suicide
To have us destroyed
Many will destroy themselves
I’m speaking as a prophet today
The damage will be done
I cannot separate myself from the pain
We’ve walked together too long
I saved them
I saved them
I made my example
I made my expression
I made my manifestation
I’ve been born out of due season
To leave this ****** world
We lay down our lives in protest
We lay down our lives to protest at what’s been done
The criminality of people
The cruelty of people
There’s no point
There’s no point to this
We are born before our time
They won’t accept us
If they come after our children
Then our children will suffer forever
Take ease
Take ease
Take ease
Take ease
Take ease
Sit down
Sit down
Sit down
It’s all over
It’s all over
What a legacy
What a legacy
They invaded our privacy
They invaded our home
They followed us six thousand miles
… the Congressman’s dead
Get us some medication
There’s no convulsions with it
It’s just simple
Get it before it’s too late
Don’t be afraid to die
They’ll torture our children
They’ll torture some of our people
They’ll torture our seniors
We cannot have this
How many are dead
Oh God
Almighty God
It’s too late
It’s too late
They’re all laying out there dead
I didn’t but my people did
They’re my people
They’ve been provoked too much
What’s happened here has been an act of provocation
You don’t know what you’ve done
I’ve tried
You’ve got to move
To get that medication
Everybody was so happy when they stepped through to the other side
It’s hard
It’s hard only at first is it hard
It’s hard only at first
You’re looking at death
Raising up every morning
It’s much more difficult
It’s much more difficult
For God’s sake let’s get on with it
We’ve lived as no other people have lived
We’ve had as much of this world as you’re gonna get
Let’s be done with the agony of it
It’s far
Far harder
To watch you
Every day
Die slowly
You are dying
This is a revolutionary suicide
It is not a self-destructive suicide
I think it’s humane
Somebody relax
Relax
Relax
Die with respect
Die with a degree of dignity
Lay down your life
Don’t lay down with tears and agony
There’s nothing to death
Stop this hysterics
This not the way for people
No way for us to die
We must die with some dignity
Mother, mother, mother, mother, please
Mother please...please...please don’t
Don’t do this
Don’t do this
Put down your life with this child
But don’t do this
Keep...keep your emotions down
If you will be quiet
Be patient
Be patient
Death is…
Dead is a million times preferable to ten more days of this life
Death, death, death is common to people
Quit exciting your children
An erasure poem I wrote in university using Jim Jones' last speech, given as 900 members of the People's Temple in Guyana were forced into suicide on his urging on November 18, 1978