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Poetry - "Give It Up"

Passively choking from passive smoking
"Just social smoking?" -
you must be joking.

Slaving for their craving
for a habit that yellows their teeth,
fingers and lungs
(which the tar bungs),
causing smokers' cough.

And that smell
which you can tell
a mile away.

Nicotine nightmares
replacing real worries; why do
they think their problems are helped
just because they don't notice them
so much?

Producing pollution
is not the solution.

Just think of the money you'll save
if the road away from dependency you'll brave.

Think of the things you can buy
for your family, your spouse,
your kids or your house,
or even yourself
if you gave up your fifty or sixty
a day.

You can be pure and clean
(for fag filled lungs are obscene)
if you just take the plunge
to eliminate the gunge
you feed your body and mind.

So give it up, save more than a few pence;
after all, in your heart you know it makes sense.

Copyright Dave Seaman

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Warts & All

• A Lighter Look At Life containing humorous poetry
• The Rise, Fall, And Rise of Us - a look at love; its ups and downs
• A Darker Look At Life - some of the poetry written when I wasn't in such a good mood!
• Prose Poetry - a couple of longer, much free format poems that tell a story.