Cigarette smoke & coffee steam

[kazza_baby]

lazy days were
when we exhaled slowly,
sometimes too slowly,
the citylife
suburban dream.
early morning traffic
in your eyes.

today
your poised index
and middle finger
verge on hungry lips,
blowing a silent kiss
before drawing
from Hope filters
my Marlboro lights.

the ashtray fills.
our paper cups
mark full empty moons
on the table.
our eyes watch
the smoke and steam.

the sides of your mouth wrinkle
to display yellowed teeth
that once sank
into sepulchered dreams
that are now
cigarette smoke
and coffee steam.

you sip hard
and let the liquid
burn your tongue
as the cigarettes burn your lungs
and she, your burning heart.

the ashtray fills.
the coffee spills.
smoke and steam rise from the table.

 

[katmeow]

I think this is my favourite of anything you've posted here.

Nice work

 

[Helios.]

You're a poet and didn't know it!

Coffee and Cigarettes: AS IF Tricky doesn't?

 

[(Wordy)]

I think this is my favourite of anything you've posted here.

Ditto. Moments in time, beautifully captured. This... is poetry!

 

[Helios.]

I love Tricky & Formica...and Coriann.

 

[doofqueen]

nice work

 

[Mary Poppins]

great imagery kazza...v. good!

 

[up all night]

We should definitely have that coffee. I think we would agree on a lot of things.

 

[EntrenchdMentalist]

I really like it

 

[Macksta]

This is so very awesome. I absolutely it.

 

[Macksta]

ps: Its Mel ! haha , logged in as Dylan