Smoking Kills

smoking kills
but then, what doesn't

the oxygen you breathe in
every time you do
it plants one more of its seeds
seeds of mortality
gradual but eventual

and you thought oxygen was life

oxygen is like mankind
hypocrite wrapped in layers of apparent goodness
it kills you
but
it makes you believe
believe
that
you will live

and then
one dusky afternoon
you will choke
you will know of the betrayal
but
it would be too late by then


the conspiracy to mortality never fails