And rip the packet is open,
the fresh smell of tobacco.
My fingers gliding the paper
along to seal the roll.Click,
heat among the cigarette,
entering my lungs.
The serenity you feel
after the exhale is the
most addictive part.That's what makes it
so hard to quit,
it some how just eases
the endless spirals you
would call stress.
But in the end,
it always returns the need,
the desire,the sickening mucky feeling to have another.
Disgusting I know.
Holding it in my hand and I feel gross
but relaxed at the same time.
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A Journey Past Our Solar System: Poetry of a Borderline
PoetryA Journey Past Our Solar System is mostly confessional poetry of my life in the few last years, structures of a dysfunctional family, in the middle of dealing with mental illness. A tragedy in the making of my brain turning into coal, ready to burn...