Elton Camp Poet Rhyme

Do You Mind If I Smoke

Do You Mind If I Smoke?

By Elton Camp

Yes indeed, I definitely do mind if you smoke
Why wouldn’t I mind being made to choke?
From smoke normal humans quickly will flee
Do you really think I want it blown all over me?

Authorities have often enough issued the alarm
Second-hand smoke the innocent come to harm
Even my clothes your smoke will penetrate
And impart a stench that I thoroughly hate

I doubt very much that in seriousness you ask
Unless you’re prepared to offer an oxygen mask
You hope to hear, “Oh, no, I don’t mind at all.”
So you ask the obvious—oh what colossal gall

To pollute others, some smokers will claim the right
Only one way should we tolerate such vicious blight
Smokers “rights” the innocent might come to hail
When these irresponsible folk manage not to exhale

Truly, responsibility and common sense we do lack
And cigarettes should be taxed ten bucks per pack
That good day, for me, can’t come at all too soon
Meanwhile, please do your smoking on the moon

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Manouchka Doreus May 27, 2011 at 2:02 PM love your venacular... love the edge to this piece and the flow of it

Ned Flanders May 27, 2011 at 1:47 PM Ho ho what a tremendous rant! You certainly put across your opinion that"s for sure...enjoyed a lot Elton Camp May 27, 2011 at 1:54 PM Ned, Thanks for reading and commenting. I saw my father die horribly of a type lung cancer directly caused by smoking. Just before his death, he said he believed it would someday be proven that smoking had nothing to do with cancer! I was reared in an environment saturated with secondhand smoke. Elton