smoking mirrors

"Smoking kills." on a cig pack. I laugh at the notion.
A sarcastic cackle escapes me.
It's hardly the smoking.

It's always the people.
Their weapons.
Their words.
Everything spoken ill-timed and brash.

I used to fear death. Now it stirs no emotion.
A neurotic cackle escapes me.
Contempt does the choking.
One cigarette after another,
again and again.

Would you look at that —
There, in the stairwell.

It's raining ash.


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