Suicide watch

    by the Tolkien-esque

situated in a barren land

  wearing a hooded gown 

  Sleaze and sly

  cradled in the arch

    of oak branches

   Sapped of strength and milkweed

cradled in crimes

and rundown plaster

  Like a dead steward 

  of narcissistic tendencies

    and an urge to lose oneself