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Exhaust

November 4, 2015
By giacrisp BRONZE, Lincoln, Rhode Island
giacrisp BRONZE, Lincoln, Rhode Island
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The smell of smoke stains her satin skin

as her untainted lungs quiver in terror

from the fear of a new ebonized reality

-and the prospect of a developing illness

crawls up her throat and pounds in the crevices of her mind.

Yet this poor aftermath is one not created

from the dirt of her own hands, but rather

from the sins of another.


The author's comments:

I wrote this piece as a way of describing what secondhand smoke is like when one is in an environment where they can't escape it. 


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