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Elora Atwell
Poems
Dec 2012
People's Worth
If people were all cigarettes- I'd smoke a pack a day
and take long drags of everyone
and then toss the butts away
If people were all change- quarters, pennies, nickles, and dimes
I'd pick each one up from the sidewalk and save
for a bottle of *** and a good time
If people were pills- they'd all be prozacs and zolofts
so we could keep on faking smiles
pretending to get off
And as I'd wash down pills with shots- and feel as each on burned
I'd blow smoke in a young child's face
Reassuring him, next was his turn.
Written by
Elora Atwell
Colorado
(Colorado)
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