How To Fight The Self-Destructive Poem by David McLansky

How to fight the self-destructive?
Let us pause to be deductive;
Their planned attack? To be assaulted,
Wishing you to be then faulted;
To flaunt their baited victim wounds,
These martyred Saints of living rooms;

So withhold the bruises that they seek,
Proud badges of their vicious streak;
Let them provoke and vilify
With slanders, threats, and sordid lies;
Mutely watch and stand aside
As they commit
Self-Suicide.