Challenge
Up In Smoke: Craft a shortstory, drabble, vignette, or poem that features, includes, or describes the act of smoking.
As a literary device, I love cigarettes. As a real-world item, I hate them. They stink. They're expensive. They're addictive.
In film or a piece of writing, though, they're silent characters with souls of their own. I love the smoky exhalation, the expectant inhale. I'm amazed at those white tendrils, reaching skyward, or the plume expelled into a face by an antagonist.
I love the words and images surrounding smoking.
We can twist the act any way we want. Build suspense. Create tension, or relieve it. Even find humor in the weakness of the addiction.
Let me see your spin on it.
La jouissance du Cigare
Oh the thick roundness of it.
Dark brown, richly scented and full
of spicy flavor that I crave!
I like mine with a rich full bodied drink,
whilst leaning back with my feet kicked up relaxing as the evening breeze flows through as if to say "Cara Mia!"
Then I light him up and take him all in,
his rich full bodied flavor, I lustily savor
every puff as I greedily hang on to his last breath.
Then I come up for air, and start all over again savoring every second I hold his breath inside.
All too soon is my ritual over,
my time is done,
and now I must
bid you all adieu.