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Poetic Rant

January 7, 2020
By Anonymous

Cigarettes lining the filthy ground

Smoke infiltrating the darkened air

Smokers, not minding the people around them

As they blow their cigarettes into others’ faces

Lung cancer is looming on the horizon

Others will get sick even if they don’t smoke

Sick from those who don’t care

About the health of those around them


All the cities I see today

Have clean streets being devastated

By the tobacco and smoke

Not to mention Marijuana

Or even E- Cigarettes


Smoking won’t do anyone any good

It will never help

All it will do is hurt

Hurt our world, our people

Hurt every part of our earth


Cities with crowds of smokers are haunted houses

Except they’re real

So help stop this madness

And drop the cigarettes

Do not drop them on the ground

But drop them from your life

© Anonymous

The author's comments:

This piece was a way for me to express my opinion on the matter of smoking.

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