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he waited 'till the cigarette
burnt out,
until he felt suffocated
by her smoke.

he thought he could
breathe now,
but he thought wrong
as she drew out
a second cigarette
and lit it up.

turns out,
she had been living
off carbon monoxide
while he choked on it.

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