Bogie and Belmondo
Both known for a butt
In their lips, smoke
Curling from corner
Of mouth making them
He-men.
How come when I
Tried it, the smoke
Burned my eyes
And made me gag
So hard the butt
Fell on
My peacoat and burned
A friggin’ hole
In it and my dad
Kicked my ass
For being for being
So dumb?
by George Held
George Held gave up smoking when his doctor said it would inflame his asthma and kill him. Previously, he’d been too stupid to figure that out.
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Poetry (any form or style) and Micro or Flash Fictions wanted for an anthology on SMOKE. Not just the black clouds rising from the five-alarm fire next door, or the billowing plumes of smoke warning us of a forest fire, or the emissions from factory smoke stacks, apartment house incinerators, and crematoriums, smoke rings rise from cigarettes, smoke pours out of headshops, pipe shops & cigar stores--see that purple haze rising over the fields of poppies and marijuana we just planted--we've used it to communicate via smoke signals and skywriting, to cover our tracks and disappear with and without mirrors, combat the enemy on and off the battlefield, kill bugs, flavor food, cure illness, declare peace treaties, and fragrance our homes. Got the idea? Release it onto the page.
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Thursday, August 27, 2009
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