Cigarette butts are still litter…

I don’t smoke,

Of cigarettes I have never taken a toke,

My one vice that of cherry coke,

Though I do dispose of the bottles properly, no joke…

When a cigarette butt is thrown from a car,

Or dropped on the ground by a passerby, I find it so bizarre,

They know not to drop paper or cups, putting them in refuse containers,

But cigarette butts or spent cigars,

Are usually just haphazardly thrown away without for anyone regard…

It always makes me sick to see this, by others, habit,

What if it were to land still burning on a rabbit?

Would we be so callous the next time?

Do smokers realize that forest fires have started with less?

I really must confess,

I hope this poem does on someone the enormity of the problem, impress…

          © ed ~ 8/3/05