Smoke Gets in Your Lungs

They asked me how I knew my carcinoma was true

I of course replied something

here inside cannot be denied

They said sometimes you’ll find

all who smoke don’t choke

But when your tongue’s on fire

from the weird desire

Smoke gets in your lungs.

 

So I chaffed them and I wryly laughed

to think that they could doubt my cancer

Yet today my cancer grows apace —

I am without my lung.

 

Now crying friends deride

laughs I cannot hide

-- laughing ending in cough and spit

So I smoke and say

When a butt but burns — smoke gets in your lungs.