(16 November / Westport New Zealand)

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A Single Cigarette Sucked Down

just a single cigarette sucked down shrinking
chemical cocktail includes Hydrogen Cyanide
gas chamber poison does not make you a Jew...

your cig choice chosen quantities
slow time lit cannot
compare to agony clawing gas...

chamber walls holocaust
smokers time dying in mass
numbers global can recant...

your cig choice chosen quantities slow time lit cannot!
compare to agony clawing gas chamber walls holocaust!
smokers time dying in mass numbers global can recant!


Copyright © Terence George Craddock

Submitted: Monday, October 01, 2012
Edited: Tuesday, October 02, 2012

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  • Ray Quesada (10/9/2012 2:06:00 AM)

    i like to tell people who are wanting to quit smoking, i tell them to think of the rich fat corporate hog in his big office sucking in millions so smokers can knowingly die to make him richer. its enough to make anybody want to quit!

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  • Karen Sinclair (10/2/2012 12:29:00 AM)

    Hi Terence, this caught me off guard, a great angle which i have never considered...tyvm karen

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