Up in Smoke
Dawn’s Early Light
By: Charles Giuliano - Aug 01, 2016
Up in Smoke
Rooster crowed
First light
Crept over horizon
Gray morning
Overcast in
Every sense
Dragged from cells
Lined up in front of
Chipped wall
Revolution crushed
Mass executions
Presiding major
With compassion
Offered
Last cigarettes
Prisoner lit up
Inhaled with gulps
That soothing
Narcotic nicotine
The second refused
I’m trying to quit
The third asked
With intensity
Do you have any
Medical marijuana
Nice to get a buzz
Go out on a high
Rifles cracked
That was that