cigarette



you are something very much like smoke
ever disappearing into the night
a less romantic or fantastic spectre than
peter pan
alighting away from my window
a black cloak in the night
my living shadow
they say you have wings
when I trudge about in
the sunlight
you are uppermost in mind
have you ever seen a sunflower?
dark on the inside
light on the outside
this is how I think of us
clamping a cigarette between my teeth
like I've seen you do
I like them because they smoke
remembering the dark
calling up pictures of you
stolid at the foot of my bed
your hair blowing in the wind
that isn't there
when you don't think I'm looking
you always come back to me at night,
Smoke
and I like to think of you as a bird
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Submitted on May 01, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Scheme ABCCDBDEFBGHIIJKLAMLNGOPBAQ
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Characters 683
Words 139
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 27

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