Submissions by The_Silly_Sibyl (Jack Thomas)
POEMS AND SHORT STORIES
Poet Introduction
I've written about religious, historical, and philosophical subjects, because I find systems of belief and existentialism interesting. But I've also written a lot about stuff like The Jerry Springer Show, slasher films, and junk food.
LOVE POEM
Published
9th Oct 2015 00:43am
9th Oct 2015 00:43am
Cigarettes and Tea
Marcel Proust,
The French Writer,
ate a biscuit dunked in tea
and it recalled to him his childhood,
so sudden and severe
all fear of death and pain were gone,
smoke from a Chinaman’s hookah,
lost in the rest of the opium den.
For me, it is nothing as pretty
(or literary)
as a biscuit dunked in tea.
For me it is cigarette smoke,
the stench pre-eminently foul
to non-smokers, though I, abstaining too,
see in its gross decay,
its redolence of illness, death,
a transubstantiation.
So sudden and severe
the great...
The French Writer,
ate a biscuit dunked in tea
and it recalled to him his childhood,
so sudden and severe
all fear of death and pain were gone,
smoke from a Chinaman’s hookah,
lost in the rest of the opium den.
For me, it is nothing as pretty
(or literary)
as a biscuit dunked in tea.
For me it is cigarette smoke,
the stench pre-eminently foul
to non-smokers, though I, abstaining too,
see in its gross decay,
its redolence of illness, death,
a transubstantiation.
So sudden and severe
the great...
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