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Open Poetry #39

Ode To Cigarettes

exhale
Senior Member

since 2003-06-13

Posts 646
Alberta,Canada

0 posted 2006-09-09 12:17 PM

People take for granted
what a smoke filled room
can do for a persons psyche

oh god
to be embraced in it
and laced with it
every vein
with nicotine
racing through it

your hands down my pants
could never do this to me

if only for
one more puff
one more plunge
through cancer treated air
and I would burst into a million pieces

Oh god
to feel this cyanide
waiting to collide
with my insides
quiver and shake

I may just melt

but no
no I'll never light another match again
and feel it

singe

my lips
feel the paper burning
no
I've got to stay clean

but...tell me

who needs soap
when dirt feels
so
good

Honeybunch
Member Rara Avis

since 2001-12-29

Posts 7115
South Africa

1 posted 2006-09-09 05:11 AM

This is great. Up to the top it goes! Well, exhale, just keep exhaling and you'll be alright. I guess we all need "the dirt" of some kind or other in order to know the "clean".

Dublin Boy
Member

since 2006-08-26

Posts 102
UK

2 posted 2006-09-09 12:00 PM

Great poem, Exhale--but I wish you wouldn't encorage me to carry on smoking!
Cheers,
Bill (a forty-a-day man)

Robert Frazier
Senior Member

since 2003-02-06

Posts 1014

3 posted 2006-09-09 01:03 PM

your honesty is pure and clean as a smoke-filled room! well done!

H, Robert

aziza
Member Elite

since 2006-07-09

Posts 2995
Lumpy Oatmeal makes me Crazy!

4 posted 2006-09-09 05:07 PM

THIS I so understand and you wrote it so well. Plus, the title and your name are perfect -- I still yearn for that cigarette. I will always be a smoker I am simply a smoker who chooses not to smoke. But, damn, I read your poem and I tasted it, felt it, and heard the sizzle of the match.

aziza

Sunshine

Administrator

Member Empyrean

since 1999-06-25

Posts 63354
Listening to every heart

5 posted 2006-09-10 08:59 AM

You wrote of the addiction very well, little one. This is one vice I've never even tried, and later, watched it take my loved ones...but I oh, so understand that crave that carved their needs.

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