Smoke Signals
Hey you Government officials
You up the price of our smokes.
Ban us from everywhere, near and far.
Make us feel guilty when we light up
in front of kids. Tax per packet,
You keep us broke.
Charge top dollar for patches
and gum that will aid our quit.
Ban advertising so we wont
be tempted. But keep them
on the shelf. We buy our fix!
Warn us on the packets
that ‘smoking is a health hazard’.
But what do you do to help us
kick our habit?
For a junkie on the needle
who will also die from his
addiction, you make needles
available for use!
Supply his habit and a building
to shoot up in __ all for free!
Smokes don’t spread AIDS
from discarded butts.
Junkies do with needles
that kids pick up.
We don’t spread AIDS
from sharing smokes.
But junkies do from passing
their needles, blood soaked.
We develop CANCERS
and still the government
won’t help!
I am tired of being made
to pay high prices so that junkies
can kick their habit at my expense.
I want answers!
TeAnne © May 15. 1999