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WORTH REPEATING

By Dan Donlan, www.PoetryPoem.com/dandy1    Unlock all Features - Upgrade to Poetry Prime

I know it well go to some deaf ears
And yes, I once smoked!
My lungs are not totally clear
Even though I gave up smoking fifty ++ years ago
I owe my life to my wife
Who caught me and threw my ring back at me
Not for smoking but for lying
I hid a pack of cigarettes in a tree
Fifteen days I went back for it
My friend Larry wss my smoking companion
Boy did it impress girls
OK, not the ones I wanted to impress
Larry today can't walk twenty feet
Without oxygen in his nose
But there well be those reading this who still smoke
That wouldn't happen to me
Ok, heres one friend who said the to me,
"I can't give up smoking I love the taste"
Two years later they were making lungs from his intestines
One year later he died screaming I want to live
He was fortyfour years old went to Church weekly
There is no one who is immune
The best advice I was given was trying to give back my ring
The Doctor's x-ray said I had black spots on my lungs
I said I am trying to quit I only smoked three today
This is what he said, listen well, "One cigarette is
enough to keep nicotine in your System one cigarette is smoking
But here is the good news::
If you can struggle thirty days the nicotine is gone

Then it is not the cigerette adiction keeping you smoking
I counted the days marking off on a calender
One day and at seventeen day I forgot marking off the days
I was no longer a smoker!
I became an irrating obbsessed nag
Did I save my life that is to be proven?
What I do know is I made it to the speed limit
Stupity cannot be cured so those taking drugs
You guys are on your own
But do you know the facts
At a certain lengh of time you lose !5% of your brain function
The other fifteen percent goes up in smoke








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