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tobacco spirit | Poem

 
 
 
 
 

tobacco spirit

when barely sixteen my brother handed me a cigarette
fifty years later
my overdose of nicotine saps my energy

but not so long as i was at sixteen
maybe
if i did not have that first cigarette
no
truth is i remember
my dream
is a world that has no need for addictions

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- Abuela Musica
8 April 2000

to abuela..... to Moongate