<u><b>smoke</b></u>

wanting to


forget i smoke


stop buying squares


share the good air,


what's left of it


anyways, anyhow,


anywhere you


want to


rem-


ember?


real?

wisps of


coughs


clutter


the air


in here,


the smell


permeating -


stench of,


full ash-


trays, day old


cigarette butts,


hour old nicotine


craving.

ad-


diction,


proper fiction,


relentless tension,


fission as well as


con -


fusion.

tired,


now.


long stretches,


working for


media machine,


smoking in a


closed off room


with a motion detector


timed to go off w/little


movement - time to work


again. one more smoke.

looking forward to


the next this or that,


even if it's within a


moment or two, or


even three, if


you believe,


don't you?

mismatched


clothes / lines / words /


moments / po3ms...

textual visual


sensations.


to be allowed


to just observe


and write - or must


one be part of life


to observe life


most fully?

wandering


poem/thought


again...

old man winter


comes a knockin'


again...