SUDDENLY

Suddenly
he lit a cigarette.
Suddenly he
lit a cigarette.
Suddenly he lit
a cigarette.
Suddenly he lit a
cigarette.

But in all that time she'd all but lost him.

Heneedsme, heneedsme, heneedsme, she says.

Oh, he responds.
So it's that
kind of poem.

:: More from THE ANCIENT BOOK OF HIP ::

*Excerpted poem from THE ANCIENT BOOK OF HIP with permission from author & Fourteen Hills Press