Author’s notes: This one’s for all of the stoners in the back of my school. Couldn’t have written it without you, guys!

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Up in Smoke

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These forested places hold so much

So many secrets and lies

So many that wish to hide from the world

To shroud their glazed-over eyes.

Behind these trees, a horrible haze

One so sickly sweet

One to hide them from everyone else

And make them so discreet.

Behind the plants and shrubs

Lies another to kill them all

One of such deadly poison

That will eventually make them fall.

But they smile because the world can’t see them

Just as they cough and choke

They laugh at their own sick humor

As their lives go up in smoke.