Monday, August 24, 2020

pizza and cigarettes

sitting outside by the pizzeria at lunch
someone comes up to me to bum a cigarette
sorry I don’t smoke I say, but that’s okay
there are plenty of smokers outside
smoking Newports across from the school
under the illusion we are almost adults


10 comments:

  1. Love the simple title you've chosen for this. A story waiting to be spilled.

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  2. Nice one Arcadia
    Thanks for dropping by to read mine

    Much💝love

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  3. This is happening less and less these days. Bumming a cigarette is getting harder and harder.
    Nice Job!

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  4. Your quadrille took me back to my schooldays, Maria, but we used to smoke outside the fish and chip shop. 😊

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  5. A whole new generation of COPD!! Too bad there isn't a better way to act adult! Great poem.

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  6. This is oh so subtle and elegant!💝

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  7. As if smoking were a shortcut to adulthood! Nice one :-)

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  8. At one point it seemed like smoking was a grown up thing... this days it seems childish.

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