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Her Wildfire Addiction (Free verse) by molly

Her dirty fingers are magnets to the slender Marlboros. Her ashtray, full and black as tall as a child's sandcastle. When she sighs, she exhales and the ashes fly spreading across the carpet like a wildfire of bees attacking its prey without mercy. She thinks she's in Heaven-- She thinks she's killing time-- She thinks there ain't a worry in the world-- When she's got her cigarettes. Oh, Mama, Mama Do you love your cigarettes more than me? Oh, Mama, Mama It's not only *you* you're killing.

molly 22-Sep-02/10:54 PM
i had no idea cigarette poems were popular.

there's a reason why i didn't choose another word for "mama." in chinese, "mother" sounds like "mama," and this poem, obviously, is about mine. any other synonym for "mama" would sound too impersonal. yes, i'm chinese, and english certainly isn't my first language, but it's what i speak and use 99% of the time, especially when i will be studying mass journalism at harvard next fall. oh yes, i'm also rarely hyper critical--of people, that is--but it's evident that you have absolutely no aesthetic appeal whatsoever and probably stink since you live in england.




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