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Bitter Nicotine
October 6, 2017
The bitter smell of nicotine stained your skin
And crept into your glass lungs
You welcomed the pure poison more than I
As you inhaled the worst the world could offer,
and now I’m left embracing someone else
Because like the smoke
you lingered for a split second
And then
the wind took you.
© Claire H., Boxford, MA
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My grandfather died from lung cancer and this peice has an emotional effect on not only me, but hopefully the others who have lost someone to lung cancer due to cigarettes.