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Poison

September 18, 2010
By 32rosie PLATINUM, Sarasota, Florida
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I watch the smoke curl
from your cigarette
as you offer it
to my beating heart.

Imagine, I drag
it across my lips,
sultry and smooth like
a real woman would.

But I’m only plastic,
I do what you say,
so I take a puff
and feel the poison.

© Molly H., Lynden, WA

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