Thank You for Not Smoking

“Why, you’re welcome,”
I’m beaming. For:
This reproduced,
Introduced,
Induced,
sign
Has thanked me, known me, before I had the respect to make its acquaintance
(Aside) perhaps my reaction is indicative.
I should reconsider:
Though I did admire their black turtle necks, and I was fond of ash trays… I could never be a smoker.
(take out my inhaler, breathe in with relief)

Well, I must find something…

“My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.”

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