cigarillo
afrika you smiled with tobacco teeth
and said "I wish the best for you"
but through those teeth I caught a lie
and knew your wishes were untrue
your yellowed nails leave purple scratches
where my forehead ought to be
and smoke displaces older love
your cancers make it hard to breathe
050828
...
pete our lives are filled with the smoke from our lungs, shashesh, weed, cigarillo, and cigar.

we choke on it as we exhale, finding solace in the rough etchings of eachother's faces. each other moment is lost in time. "i'm sure you're right, so long, for how high?"
050828
what's it to you?
who go
blather
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