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Smoke Break Rat Reality
by +Steven Curtis Lance → (All Poetry by +Steven Curtis Lance)
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Whenever I pull a Pall Mall from the pack
The dogs get excited get ready to attack
The rat that scorned them they had warned before
Waiting out there laughing at them they just know
Having an itch and wanting to scratch
That imaginary rat unwary

But if real I imagine that he or she
Would be wary of this rat reality

Though the dogs know what they want when they go
Caught up in whatever they might catch
Dogs of the desert in the desert no more
In the gritty city now who know what to do
How at smoke break two abreast to burst then through the door
To exercise their curiosity



Steven Curtis Lance
 
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Reviewed by John Domino
Reviewed on July 25, 2014
A poetic wake-up call. I used to smoke two packs a day but when I got bored I could smoke up to four. My doctor advised me to quit cold turkey if I wanted to live much more. I did and now I have to have my sugar-free gum handy all the time, every day. That was thirty-plus years ago and I would not have it any other way.


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