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Her Wildfire Addiction

by molly

Member since 2002 · Posted 30 Jul 2002 · 4 comments

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.

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4 comments

[7] Sigh'ense... 30-Jul-02/6:43 PM Reply
A bleeding heart,
is the spark
of this worlds retribution from the dark...
Keep caring girl, Da1....
[9] -=SeTTle=- 30-Jul-02/8:55 PM Reply
Oh gin..how could you treat me this way
[0] [mojo] 1-Sep-02/1:17 PM Reply
Cigarette poems seem extremely popular and frankly i think this poem stinks. I'm very rarely hyper critical and will certainly read a selection of a poets work if i have a negative reaction to one of their pieces. I hope i like another piece better. The last stanza sounds like it was written by someone who does not use English as their first language. "Oh Mama"! .0.
[n/a] molly › [mojo] 22-Sep-02/10:54 PM Reply
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.