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Breaking Bad Habits
November 10, 2015
You are my shameful habit
A lethal smoky addiction
Drawn to my clean lips
An instinctual desire to inhale
All your toxins at once
I want to burn you down to a
Glowing ember
And see the light gently fade
From that porcelain face
I will hold your wild taste hostage
In my mouth and let you slide down
And manifest in my lungs
Where you’ll cultivate and multiply
Like a chain of cancerous soldiers
Unwilling to falter
And when my mind is distrait and unaware
You’ll infiltrate
Killing the host who welcomed you
With open lips
© Kris B., Lewisville, TX
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Danielle Najjar BRONZE said...
on Nov. 19 2015 at 1:15 pm
oops! Yes I did. Please excuse me grammar and spelling!
Lizzy567 said...
on Nov. 13 2015 at 3:33 pm
OMG THIS IS SOO GOOD but in the 3rd stanza 5th line did u mean multiply and the 7th waiver?
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