Cigarette Death Camp

long white things
with filtered ends
small circles laced
around something similar
to pvc pipe

leafy brown stuff
packed inside
lighter in hand
to strike up a light

to suck up something that was once
a green leaf in fields of Nicaragua
where children of men hack away with machetes
for hours from dawn till dusk
to only get paid a small fee

then shipped off to factories
where the cancer causing agents
get  put in
injected with Acetone
Formaldehyde
Carbon Monoxide
just to name a few

what makes me lavish this leaf
It is a daily walk I have had since
age ten
my lungs are probably charred
like black cod

I might as well say
welcome to camp kill yourself daily
cause it is a slow death