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Wednesday, January 23, 2008

Cigarette Cigarette Burning Bright

Cigarette cigarette burning bright

Ashes dark and tip alight

Standing tall tilting slight

Burning away into the night.


An obsession a favorite a kill joy

A poison a weapon a toy

Good for the man but bad for the boy

Silent and smoky flashy and coy.


Unheeding the danger sign

People taste the divinity thine

They say less is fine

Less and more is but a thin line.


Cough cough choke choke

Lungs afire heart broke

Still a charm under the cloak

Precious life up in smoke.


Clouding the sense

Releasing the tense

In public an offense

So in private as a defense.


Corroding lives of the yearners

Claiming away the earners

Lighted by matches lighters and burners

Slow death for all a burden upon mourners.


Cigarette cigarette burning bright

Why don’t people see the light

And put away the aflame fright

To live longer and live light.