Saturday, July 16, 2011

Orrin Hubbard's Suicide, A Recitation By Gerry Hubbard


The Death Of Orrin Hubbard  




Sidney, New York. Orrin Hubbard, about 52, shot himself in Sidney, brother of Mrs. Joseph Dingman of Prattsville...Death Notice December 19, 1900



Orrin Hubbard shot himself at Sidney in New York.
I wonder what the pressures were that made him pull the cork.

Was it the booze or opium, back then the drugs of choice,
That made him do that final act to forever still his voice.

Undated is his nephew’s death ’neath runners of a sleigh.
I wonder if that accident got to him in some way.

We’ll never really know, it’s far beyond our minds to figure,
To conjure up that small last straw that made him pull the trigger.

So Orrin Hubbard ended all his pain and tears and strife,
And Orrin Hubbard took a gun, and then he took his life.

I guess man’s minds' the only thing that takes the world unleavened,
Then cooks a heaven into hell or a hell into a heaven.



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