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Cigarettes and Coffee

Mark Fleury

The Demon comes back when it rains
On the deck outside.
The birds are still quiet, so I listen
To the red hot tobacco burn
Away the paper until the butt chars
To a golden brown:
Long gray ash, fragile and untouched.
I gently poke it,
Watch it collapse into the ashtray, rub
Thumb and forefinger
Together until there’s a fine powder.
“There is a light
Directly behind your head. When you die
There will continue
To be a light.”
A few chirps as the rain lets up.
It’s rained
Every day for a week. It scares me.
To surrender
To whatever guides me. To be gone
Forever.

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