- May 2000 -
Vladimir Mayakovsky took his own life on April 14, 1930, when he was only 37 years old.
Here I am not going to praise his poetry, it would be so unfair in such a small and unsuitable place.
This is only a short meditation on his death. As a young boy, I used to regard suicide as an insane
mixture of cowardice and failure. An appalling act against reason and nature. But experience, or rather the slimy sense of injustice which seems to be lying at the bottom of mankind, has inevitably made me change my view.
