I wonder if the niccotine
which digs its claws into my veins
is warring with the common sense
which saturates into my brain,
when each and every pack I buy
warns of my "slow and painful death",
and adverts show the nearly dead
pathetic, weak, and short of breath.
I'm pushed outside of bars and pubs,
and offered countless ways to quit,
but these are my lungs to fuck up,
I'll do with them as I see fit.
Some say that it's a pointless drug,
but non-smokers can't understand
the little pleasure in each drag,
or how they feel right in my hand.
"Give up before it kills you!" is the cry,
and to that I can have but one reply:
One hundred percent of non-smokers... die.
Author notes
Option 3, kind of. I'm a smoker. I know its bad for me, everyone knows its bad for them. We get it. I'll quit if and when I want to. Now leave me alone. You're dying too.
*Edit* As if to prove my point I can see various adverts for quitting smoking at the top of the screen. LEAVE ME ALONE!
A contest entry
- Smoking by Starretta.
450 points, ended June 16, 2008, 10 entries
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Comments
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I really like this poem a lot...it makes me think..should i quit or not. thanks a lot for that. LOVE IT AND KEEP WRITING!!!!
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Cute ...
but I certainly don't agree with your point of view.
Good luck in the other contest.
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damn, you'd think at your age you'd have learned to ignore a-holes. calm down and have another
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HAHAH - I am a non-smoker but applaud your independence in claiming your pack of ciggies. Tis true, we all die eventually. Might as well enjoy your time while you're here but please, please don't blow smoke in my face! Good luck in the contest with this gem! All the best....
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LOVE IT!! This poem is fantastically true! Good luck in my contest!
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