Monday, April 30, 2007

Chain Smoke

Tap tap tap on your cigarette
To the beat of fallen embers.
Chatter in the background.
Inhale, hold, exhale, again.
Tame the flaming fury
With your man lungs.
Defeat the sting of nicotine
On your pink gums.
Ahhhhh, satisfaction.
Ahhhhh, satisfaction.
The label burns until
It is unrecognizable
Even by its own mother.
The feeling's stopped. Huh?
Light another, light another.
What were you saying?
Continue,
Yes.

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