I'm Having A Moment
I will never be able to comprehend the complexity of the night sky, or what goes on in my brain when I sit in my parked car and inhale, sparked flint stinging…
Game Greens
A little whiff of home, I said to myself as I lit up a cigar that you and I once shared in the parking lot of a bar we weren’t old enough to enjoy. A little…
& There We Were, & All We Were
You, the alcoholic, and I, the new smoker will grow entangled together. We will feed off of each other’s mindless addictions. I will need you for your midnight…
Robson's Curb
She is bound to ask me why I’m walking the edge of the sidewalk, staring down at the curb. There aren’t too many explanations other than ‘crazy’ for this kind…
Asp
Warmth floods in and I start to seize Muscle quakes and tremors cease My eyelids shoot about, trapeze For a second I don’t even pant. For this, made from the…
Thanatos instinct
Looking at the the cigarette between his fingers he was aware of the hot ash glowing at the end, and how the breeze gently pulled the warm embers off the tip…
Us
“Yeah well...at least I think of more glamorous ways to out myself. Lung cancer doesn’t sound so attractive to me,” she shuddered at the very thought. “Neither…
Raindrops on Sunday Mornings
I woke up to the rain pounding on the roof and window panes . Pushing myself up, I wrapped the sheets tighter around me and shivered from the cool rain air…
Solemn smoking
Now there was only one left. He had been well stocked on cigarettes for the twenty-five or so years he had been smoking, working through a nice, steady, five…
Puppets Can Be Detectives Too
“Excuse me?” The cashier jerked awake and looked about for the source of the voice. “Down here.” He peered over the cash register to see a small puppet…
Behind the Bike Shed
The smell of the cigarette hung in the air on that cold, crisp morning. Sneaking round the back of the school bike shed, he saw David, Samuel and Jessica…
Quitting is for quitters
they say you need to mean it if you wanna make this stick but it was just an empty threat decision made too quick im told its for the better that it’ll all be…
Waiting for Grace
This is my pre-coital cigarette. Breathe in. The filters are the only solid matter to pass my lips; I stub them in place. Breathe in. The smoke puddles, drips…
A Second Opinion
I cut right to the chase when she picked up the phone. “Ma, you never told me I was a dragon.” “Hello to you, too. Yes, my hip is fine. No, nothing much has…
I've quit smoking. (for the 27th time...)
I was thinking--looking down at its burning ember end--and considering the fact that this could be my last cigarette, possibly ever. Thinking, what am I doing…