Comments on: First Smoke

By: David Harmon

David Harmon — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 16:32:31 +0000

Great, but also a little uncomfortable — I’m a 20-year smoker, who’s distinctly ambivalent about it. But I LOL’d at “little smoky thumb”!

By: Dave

Dave — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 15:11:38 +0000

Glad y’all liked it. I was literally jotting down the words and phrases that became the poem in between puffs, though I’d thought the poem would be about something else entirely.

I should explain that the tobacco I was smoking is from an ornamental species I grew in my garden a few years back. It tastes much less disgusting to the (very) occasional smoker than a “real” cigarette would.

By: Dana

Dana — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 19:41:13 +0000

“What other parts of my new/old body
have inherited secret flaws?”

Yes. Fantastic line. I love the image, too.

By: Jo

Jo — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 08:49:56 +0000

Fantastic.

By: slynne

slynne — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 03:27:16 +0000

This is great.