i've given up smoking
because my fingernails were tipped yellow
and my wife hated the smell
that was always haunted my clothes
and i never could breathe that well
the smoking made my lungs work harder
it never tried to help
my fingers still sometimes twitch
for those cancerous nicotine sticks
because my nerves are so fried these days
(yet, i've never been able to think straight, anyway)
and the tobacco always calmed my crazy down
but i wasn't going to let tobacco put me six feet in the ground
being nervous and paranoid is better, i guess
than being dead
