Smoke Break

SMOKE BREAK

My neighbor next door

is having a cigarette

I can't see him

here on the porch

where I sit reading

His smoke comes over

and turns in

to the garden room

It's ok

and he doesn't know

we share part

of every cigarette

he smokes out front

of his house

We never talk

about the suffering

Jim Bodeen

14 July 2019