On Cigarettes

he announced I have given up!

six weeks and it’s rare I feel the lack

I knew just what he meant

having given up on us

but he omitted

how raw that rare

how this rare is more like blue

there is still a pulse

when the knife goes in

I twitch

~

CLP 25/07/2021

3 Comments

  1. Oooh, love this one!! 👍👍🖤🖤

    1. Pain is poetry it seems x

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