Brown Is Just A Darker Shade of Yellow

she smoked cigarettes

to flavor the emptiness

eyes tar and heart ash

Reviews

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Nice one Pete, you nailed that haiku syllable-count and there's a clever irony in writing a nature-honorary to cigarettes.

I've been a smoker for a long time and've only recently given it up, but if asked why I did it for so long the only response I can ever seem to muster is that I loved smoking. Nothing could ever really fill the hole in the way that a cigarette can pretend to, and pretension aside, there's a strange comfort in tobacco that you really can't find anywhere else (I like to think that smokers have all been damaged early, and we're attracted to the neuroticisms of the habit to try and relieve ourselves of some prior ailment).

Short and bitter, this one, and I'm pleasantly reminded of happy hours gone by.

Thanks for sharing, never been to Boston but the Irish in me can't help but romanticize it. Hope things are well in your corner.

-Ook

[Pete]

the allure of calming tobacco and blowing smoke.
couldn't have explained it any better. i've never smoked but currently find myself around a nervous lot of those who do. it does possess a means of filling voids and quelling uneasy feelings. some even graduate to weed and other things ... :)

[Dave Brown]

I quit when I started at University
Couldn't afford both gasoline and cigarettes'
It was one of the most difficult things I had to do, cuz there's nothing like beer and a smoke

[Pete]

like burgers and fries, seems as though drinks and smokes were made for each other. i doubt you were the first one or will be the last to have to make that tough choice. look at this way - think of all the money you saved not to mention your health. great share dave. thanks ... :)