Index
Please Visit Our Sponsors


Chris Sorrenti
Chris Sorrenti

Date of Birth: 10/30/57
Location: Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Email: tomcat@home.com
Published in: Muse, Free Verse Anthology, Bywords, Pillow Poems (self published Chapbook)


I TELL MYSELF

I tell myself
The next time a cigarette wants to inhale me
Simply digest a poem
There are no calories in poetry
Though I heard tell once of a man in the Yukon
Who grew fat reading prose

Recent studies indicate
It can even clean up your complexion
Sex is often better after certain verses from Layton
The Marlboro man will never know what he was missing

I tell myself
The next time a cigarette tries to drag on me
Simply dip into The Premature Burial
Or any story for that matter
That presses home the madness
Of midnight walks in pouring rain
To give the government more of my pay check

The latest studies indicate
There are no carcinogens in free verse or rhyme
And they can even reverse the aging process
Babies are often born now reciting passages from Shakespeare
Once their mothers have aborted the tobacco companies

I tell myself
The next time a cigarette pack wants to unwrap me
Simply crush it under the weight of Webster's
Or any book for that matter
That presses home the absurdity
Of inhaling noxious substances
Just to make my heart speed up
Then later to slow it down

Recent studies indicate
There's no cholesterol in paper
Even after it's been given tone and meter
Though I heard tell once of a woman in P.E.I.
Who had a heart attack reading Stephen King

I also know a poet
Who smoked three packs of cigarettes
Trying to find the right words to use
On a piece about quitting smoking