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Life and Cigarettes
Life is a cigarette,
Bitter and crude
Slowy intoxicating
the recipient until death.
A time bomb,
Waiting to blow.
Sometimes stomped
Or throw out early
But this remains true:
It keeps burning after it is thrown down.
I was observing people, and I saw a man throw his cigarette onto the ground, but that it burned for a long time after it was put down.