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Richard Lopez

I am a very healthy man, as far I’m concerned:
I walk the dog most mornings, eat fruit with my coffee,

maintain a level of activity as far as I want to be active.
but there is this plant that is brown that I roll up
in white leaves, these papery joints connected to me
through fire.

and I know I should know better, but dear doctor you don’t know the half.
if I were to breathe all the smoke of me into the air

my heart would run away. nowhere else. just away.

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