| Now, just to change the subject a little bit, do you realize, do you realize that right this second, right now, somewhere around the world some guy is getting ready to kill himself. |
| Isn’t that great? |
| Isn’t that great? |
| Did you ever stop and think about that kind of shit? |
| I do. |
| It’s fun, and it’s interesting and it’s true. |
| Right this second some guy is getting ready to bite the big bazooka. |
| Because statistics show that every year a million people commit suicide. |
| A million. |
| That’s 2800 a day. |
| That’s one every 30 seconds [checks his watch]
|
| There goes another guy. |
| And I say guy, I say guy because men are four times more likely than women to commit suicide. |
| Even though women attempt it more. |
| So men are better at it. |
| That’s something else you gals will want to be working on. |
| Well, if you want to be truly equal, you’re going to have to start taking your own lives in greater numbers.
|
| But… But I just think it’s interesting to know.Interesting, that’s a big word in this show for me. |
| Interesting to know that at any moment the odds are good that some guy is dragging a chair across the garage floor, trying to get it right underneath that ceiling beam, wouldn’t want to be too far off center. |
| If it’s worth doing, it’s worth doing right. |
| Somewhere else another guy’s going over and getting a gun out of a dresser drawer. |
| Somebody else is opening up a brand-new package of razor blades. |
| Maybe struggling with the cellophane a little bit, you know. |
| “Oh, shit. |
| It’s always something. |
| Goddamn it, fuckin shit.”
|
| I just think that’s an interesting as hell. |
| That’s probably the most interesting thing you can do with your life, end it. |
| I don’t think I could do that, though. |
| Could you? |
| God. |
| I couldn’t commit suicide if my life depended on it. |
| But I understand it, you know. |
| I think I do. |
| I don’t wonder about it. |
| I don’t wonder, Well, why did he do that and, What was going through his mind. |
| You know what I wonder, Where did he find the fucking time? |
| Who’s got time to be committing suicide? |
| Aren’t you busy? |
| I got shit to do. |
| Suicide would be way down on my list. |
| Probably down past lighting my own house on fire. |
| I might want to try a little self-mutilation first. |
| You know, take a couple of hunks out of my arm. |
| See if I like the general idea. |
| Because you’ve got to have priorities, man. |
| You know. |
| And you’ve got to have a plan, too, for something like that. |
| You’ve got to plan that shit. |
| People just don’t run out the house and jump off a bridge. |
| There are things you have to decide. |
| Timing is important. |
| When you’re going to do it. |
| “Well, let me see now. |
| Wednesday’s out. |
| Got to take Timmy to the circus. |
| “Survivor” is on, on Thursday. |
| Friday I got my colon cleansing. |
| The folks are coming over on Sunday. |
| Sunday. |
| By God, that’d be just the thing. |
| Maybe mom will find my body. |
| Serve her right for fucking me up the way she did.”
|
| Then you have to pick a method. |
| How you’re going to do it. |
| “Well, let me see now. |
| Afraid of heights, that’s no good. |
| Can’t swallow pills. |
| Don’t like the sight of blood. |
| Fucking oven’s electric. |
| I’d lie down in front of a train, except the Amtrak ain’t coming through here in 30 goddamn years. |
| Maybe I’ll just take a gun and shoot myself in the mouth. |
| Suppose I miss? |
| People will be laughing at me. |
| Suppose I live? |
| I’ll have a big fucking hole in my head. |
| I’ll have to wear some kind of dumb-ass hat. |
| Well, I guess I’ll just hang myself. |
| That’d be good. |
| Gotta get a rope. |
| Oh, shit, it’s always something. |
| I got a rope in the garage. |
| It’s got a lot of grease and paint on it. |
| Don’t want to get that stuff on my neck. |
| Wal-Mart’s having a special on rope this weekend. |
| No sense spending a lot of money to kill myself. |
| Then again, I can always put it on my credit card I’ll never have to pay the fucking thing. |
| That’s it then. |
| I’m hanging myself and Wal-Mart’s paying for it.
|
| What’s next? |
| The note. |
| Oh, Jesus. |
| I got to express myself. |
| Hell, if I could express myself, I wouldn’t be thinking of doing something like this. |
| Where’s a pen? |
| I can never find a pen. |
| Told the kids not to move the pen away from that telephone. |
| Goddamn kids. |
| I ought to just kill them, too. |
| Make it one of them family package deals. |
| Here’s a pen. |
| I’ll just jam it into my fucking neck and get it over with. |
| Let’s see now. |
| Where do you put the date? |
| Upper left? |
| I can never remember that. |
| To whom it may concern. |
| Sounds kind of impersonal. |
| Dear Marzel. |
| Leaves out the kids. |
| I know. |
| Hey, guys. |
| Guess what? |
| Keep on reading. |
| How are you? |
| I hope you are fine. |
| I am not fine. |
| As you can no doubt tell from me hanging here from this ceiling fixture. |
| You are the ones who drove me to this. |
| I was doing just fine until you fuckers came along. |
| I hope you’re happy now that I’m goddamn dead. |
| Signed, the corpse in this room. |
| P.S., fuck you people.” |
| Yeah, good enough. |
| That would be a good note. |
| I don’t think a writer could ever commit suicide. |
| Do you? |
| A writer would be too busy working on the note all goddamn year. |
| Trying to get it just right. |
| First draft, second draft, third revision, whole new ending. |
| Finally, he’d turn it into a book proposal and have a reason to live. |
| That wouldn’t work. |
| I think about stuff like that. |
| It’s interesting to me. |
| Like I said, certain things are interesting. |
| Suicide’s interesting. |
| Life is filled with interesting things. |
| That’s why I could never commit suicide. |
| I’m having too much fun keeping an eye on you folks. |
| Watching what you do. |
| Human behavior. |
| That’s what I like. |