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jwesley
Member Rara Avis
since 2000-04-30
Posts 7563
Spring, Texas

0 posted 2018-03-29 01:54 PM



Amazing


Some days . . .
it seems the day
has already died,
when it’s only just begun –
just like that cigarette butt
I just kicked off my
front sidewalk,
into the grass,
kicking it around
until it was out of sight.

Dead.

It’s then I want
to crawl back
into my bed,
burying even my head
beneath the covers.

I hate cigarettes.
And the people
who believe my yard
is the perfect place
to dispose of them.

Daddy!

My heart goes,Boom!
Boom!

Amazing – the sound
of my 4-year old’s
voice.


© wesley james beard, jr.

© Copyright 2018 Wesley James Beard, Jr. - All Rights Reserved
Lori Grosser Rhoden
Member Patricius
since 2009-10-10
Posts 10202
Fair to middlin' of nowhere
1 posted 2018-03-29 02:45 PM


Jimmy!
Yeah buddy, it is amazing how those little things can bring us up or pull us down. ~L

Bluesy Socrateaser
Member Elite
since 2002-11-07
Posts 2417
In The Mirror
2 posted 2018-03-29 08:14 PM


When I smoked, I smoked Lucky Strikes. I thought of them as biodegradable.
You must have encountered one of the 'Kotex' brands.

The distraction was far more pleasant.  

...just bein' Bluesy

2islander2
Member Ascendant
since 2008-03-12
Posts 6825
by the sea
3 posted 2018-04-05 05:54 PM


amazing poem too, about life and cigarettes, between them, there is no compromise
, great poem


yann

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