shillelagh law (joneal) wrote, @ 2007-12-29 11:52:00

That I had the impact.........
Pressing question 176:
Were cigarettes really so self-medicating
that they diluted this swarm
of one thousand tiny things
currently stinging me like
salt encrusted darts;
did they actually make me oblivious?
Observation:
Quitting seems to be contagious
to other avenues of my existence.
Examples:
I am struck with the inexplicable desire
to quit my job, organizations, friendships
and conversations I may be currently
in the midst of.
Observation:
Given the populace of shopping malls
as evidenced by recent visitation,
random mall shootings
are not as iniquitous as I once believed.
The current trend seems to be
for shop, kiosk and food court
employees to hawk their goods
like medieval fish-mongers,
wading amid the throng bearing trays
of lotions, perfumes or orange tempura chicken,
thrusting them into the faces of shoppers,
so unfazed by refusals that their miens
never change from the plastic, grotesque
mockery of grins that have been
stamped upon them by the overlord Commerce
and the tyrant Hourly Wage.
Random acts of violence
would do well to target them first.
Pressing question 177:
What have I become?
At age sixteen I despised cowboy boots
and all that wore them,
seeing them as the regalia of simpletons.
Yesterday upon above mentioned trip to mall,
I spent one hundred dollars
on a pair of Steve Madden, designer
quasi-cowboy boots.
Observation:
The city looks less like it was snowed upon
than some god of frost
blew its wad all over everything.
White, cum-like slush clings
to streets, sidewalks and cars,
squishes beneath feet with the sound
of something being sucked from an orifice.
Revelation:
If I were to attempt to quit drinking now,
on top of smoking,
it would be reasonable to assume
that I would transform into a denizen
of the ninth circle of hell
and the world would ratchet
one notch further down
on the scale of “Doomed”

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