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Half-Burned Cigarette
November 18, 2015
Divorce the half-burned cigarette from
your wrinkled, gray lips, and
desperately drag your trembling tears down to them.
Hydrate those lips, bloody, used, and helpless,
and the admit the battles lost when you
impatiently looked away.
“They just used me. They just took what they could get.”
Silence strains it’s voice again
as you raised that half-burned cigarette.
© Matt Bullock, Highland Village, TX
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This was a "found poem" I wrote in creative writing class. I used words I found on a page from a book and rearranged them into a poem with a completely different storyline.