Marlboro Mang

i’m smoking

cigarettes

i can’t

really afford

-

i may look

really

you know

like

interested

-

but i’m

the chairman

of the bored

-

inhaling noxious fumes

i don’t need

ignoring all the warnings

i won’t heed

-

got a nagging fuckin cough

i can’t kick

addicted

to the products

that keep me calm

and make me sick

-

sucking on poisons

fed to me

by machines

-

surfing semi-tangible realities

offered

in teasing

fleeting dreams

-

and the nothing

that i seek

it hides in sight

between the breath

of silent screams