Gray Lungs

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"I think
All our lungs
Are a little gray
As we have
Inhaled toxic people
And they have made a home in our lungs
And taught us how to hate ourselves
Taught us how
To slowly
Kill ourselves
And it's not until
We exhale you that one last time
We realize
You were never welcomed here
And although
The damage
May be done
You will only ever be
Remembered
As
Cigarette smoke"

-m.n.

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