"We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing." ~George Bernard Shaw

"Look at everything as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time." ~Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn


Sunday, December 30, 2012

Magpie #149 Terminal Habits

image by R.A.D. Stainforth

Ashes to ashes
Until one lung collapses
Stubbing life out as we sigh
Not a sterling way to die

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18 comments:

  1. smokers lie to themselves until it's too late; usually. In the end the romance disappears into the swirling smoke.

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  2. You summed it up beautifully, and powerfully...

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  3. He should be smoking Dunhills - if he insists on smoking!

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  4. This picture, along with your words, should be made into a poster and hung in every high school in the country.

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  5. A terrible way to die. A good reminder here.

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  6. Heavy, the saddest deaths in our family were those experienced by the smokers, empheysema, lung cancer, major strokes. Stubbing out life indeed.

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  7. couldn't agree more~ not sterling, indeed.

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  8. Anonymous7:03 PM

    Ha! Love your last line.

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  9. Very true Kathe....hope you have a Happy New Year! :-)

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  10. Truth in poetry...at last!! You did it...

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  11. Short and to the point. First one, then the other. Such a powerful addiction.

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  12. Reality not readily accepted by many! A long and slow road to awareness! Nice reminder Kathe!

    Hank

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  13. Nice reminder, to be sure!

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  14. You said it all in four lines...bkm

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  15. Quite a strange way to go, i couldnt agree more, Kathe

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  16. Exactly! Well done.

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