Ashtrays Poems - Poems about Ashtrays

The sunlight through piss and pain

...Some places you don’t write about. You survive them.

Frost on the telly, piss on the stairs,
Smells like bleach, burnt foil, and prayers.
Boiler’s gone. Sockets dead.
Someone’s screaming. Someo...

daddy died alone in his home

...daddy died alone in his home
ashtrays with cigarette butts completely hoarded his deathbed
the smell of smoke almost immediately made my eyes turn red
i regret the 15 years since i last saw him
h...

Moomy, Smoke and a Pancake

...Sweet mother, Virginia Slim wedged between your fingers,  
that last light willed to die at the rig
of a darkened room.  
You—half-goddess, half-ghost, pinioned in some still-life setting
of tumb...

Things That Should Grow on Trees

...Things That Should Grow on Trees

Things that should grow on trees include:
big sea birds with 
extremely long wings, old-fashioned shoe 
horns, tape recorders who 
play sporadically cries of 
...

my sister and cancer

...My sister and cancer
 
Maybe it was in 1946
when the winter was very hard
the big lake outside town froze solid
my brother had given me an old pair of skates
something with leather binning, I t...

It was Christmas

...It was Christmas, and we were young,
when the snow was deep
and the lights were strung,
along Stony hill, Allen and Main.
And my uncle`s dead
but he too would light up
on a fifth of bourbon a d...

Golden Rules At the Finest Schools

...I sent my daughter to the finest schools
     where she learned all the golden rules

   Race-baiting pays, one's pronouns are weighed
     with marijuana fill up the ashtrays 

   'B-' student...

Real As Me

...A corner has been turned
A chapter has been burned 
A stipend has been earned —
Was it by me?

You can’t unearth a friend 
If he’s stuck in the deep end 
And he sure as hell cannot pretend
He...

Trousers

...Trousers are ashtrays
Traveler's affectation
Embracing the dirt....

Hearts Faded With Time

...Hearts faded with time.

Skinny jeans and smokey air
The sound of laughter and pool balls on a table
The smell of damp carpet and stale beer
Full ashtrays and sweaty skin
Those were the dives I...

Before Corporate Cafes

...Before corporate café`s took over and Starbucks became so ubiquitous, on every corner of your city, small business cafés thrived.  There was Antique Row Café Ave; four café`s that stood alongside eac...

A World of Cravings

...When you have a desire
for something,
You have an intense craving 
that just won’t quit.
For some people 
it’s called a Nicotine Fit.
Desperate people will check 
the ashtrays
Before they ask...

Rat Race

...7/11/21


Never been the smoothest talker
Got to make the best of it before I need a walker
Had a lot or nothing to offer
Wasn't always worth the bother
4 days a week I work with and help doct...

The Drive

...How small we were sitting in the backseat of that mammoth car. We were dwarfed on the giant sofa-like bench waiting like a great amusement ride about to start. While we waited we explored our new sur...

God Bless the Usa

...I smoked a pack of Marlboros 
Every day, left butts smoldering
In dirty, smelly ashtrays
The nicotine addiction compelled 
Me to quit… yet, I did not
I smoked until there was only
Short, spasmi...

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