Pillow Smoke.

By Mute Serenade

Plastic cups melting
A dying cigarrette segway screams
Into ash and saliva.

Failing falling philosophy
Of lungs keeping up with hearts
A race you put them to.

"You can't talk to women,
But you can sure make them scream,"
Writhes from my quivering
To my lip (I can't stop from biting).

For a glimpse of time,
Everytime,
By tar injection death filled fiber glass
I am porcelain,
Weathered and fragile.

For a moment of the while,
Anywhile
By the slightest motion-spurred sheet wrinkles
I am flawless,
Untouchably touchable and sweat soaked.

And we are suspended
As concentration floats
To the swell of our combined smoke trails,
Looking down to burning filters.

We pause,
And silently wonder...

How brief "we" are to our cigarettes,
How brief our cigarettes have become.

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Copyright 2004 Mute Serenade
Published on Tuesday, May 25, 2004.     Filed under:
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  • carlosjackal On Monday, September 18, 2017, carlosjackal (2788)By person wrote:

    Yep..Kirk's nailed it again...So subtle....I drank this up, every last drop...Fantastic like a post-orgasmic Bowie lyric.

  • Antigeist On Thursday, September 15, 2011, Antigeist (7)By person wrote:

    very nice word play!

  • sixsixnine On Tuesday, June 8, 2004, sixsixnine (476)By person wrote:

    what a trip! loving it * indeed a beautiful work & obviously original i also agree with Krusifire Poetic genius! this makes me want a cigerrete in the end LOL* how brief all this shit has become *669*

  • Krusifire On Wednesday, June 2, 2004, Krusifire (13)By person wrote:

    Poetic genius! I love the unique delivery and the words you use. nicely done. ~Lee~

  • capt_funguy On Monday, May 31, 2004, capt_funguy (777)By person wrote:

    anywhile ... subtle genius to me ... and your paused silent wonderings in the end .... just friggin' spectaculous ... this piece was a rainbow ... nothing less than a rainbow .... beautiful .. funguy

  • A former member wrote: Gonna go catch a smoke, brb. -END-


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