In the Perspective of a Cigarette
November 20, 2014
My skin is rough, different shades of pale white,
Slender, perfectly fitting the cuffs of his plush mouth,
Pressed between the pillows of his lips as the end of me
Is set aflame, a flash of heat burning over until my skin is
Crisp, falling in ashes to the ground as
He lowers me between his fingers,
His lips forming an ‘o’ as he exhales my insides,
Now disintegrated only into a hazy smoke
That is pushed out into the air and
Pushed into his lungs,
Where the smoke can corrode his organs
As though it were acid,
His lungs dripping and shriveling into themselves.
I am risk, I am suicide.
People choose to let me inside of their lungs
And leave my mark, as though I were
Stubbing myself out inside them,
Like they stub me out
Against concrete.