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Red Light, Green Light, Cigarette Buds

Red light, Green light, cigarette buds Red means stop, green means go, cigarette buds punched out in an dirty ash tray means death is coming for you and love has run out, just as the man trying to blow through the intersection we all know as 'life' smoking his cigarette clouding his car with ash and smoke till the eighteen wheeler rams him off the road and he turns into fire and ash like his blackened lungs from all the cigarette buds that were punched out in the ashtray we all call 'reality' Red the symbol for blood, which flows from his open wounds green for his greed for rushing through life and the cigarette buds that littered his so-called 'great life' -11/18/2013-

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Date: 12/1/2013 6:27:00 PM
Chris Such an intense and emotional write. You dug way down deep for this one. The imagery and description you used to describe this persons life is emotional and full of sorrow. Nice job
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