February 7, 2011

December Fourth, 11:59pm

The last cigarette I smoked tonight
tasted like the cold air of this past winter.
It tasted like both of our tears.
Or kind of like blood.

December fourth at 11:59pm,
that's all I could think about.

December fourth, right before midnight.
One minute before my twenty-fifth birthday.

Just sixty agonizingly slow seconds before it all
fell apart.

Or maybe that's when it all came together. . .

Either way,
I meant it when I told you,
"Everything will be O.K. baby"

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