Ode to a cigarette

Yasmin Jensen Giménez

The cigarette is a window into the contradictory world of addiction in this work. It is both the ‘fatal associate’ and ‘serene’ and ‘graceful’, a figure of desire and repulsion explored in the voice of free verse.


 

This cigarette

in a cardboard coffin,

a condemning nail.

To some,

it may

sound deranged,

but

it calls

to me, The Fume.

A fatal associate:

serene, graceful,

captivating, and yet

the thirst is

never quenched.

 



 

Yasmin Jensen Giménez

 

brightONLINE student literary journal

10 Aug 2012