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Artist: Discount
Canonical path: /discount/portrait-of-a-cigarette
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Portrait of a Cigarette
Read Portrait of a Cigarette lyrics by Discount on LyroVerse, with linked artist context and related song paths.
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Curated by Ethan Walker
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Portrait of a Cigarette
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take a circle.
and a straight line.
put a match against the open end.
feel it burning.
see the burning.
breathe the burning.
until it's extinguished again.
all those distinctions.
clearly ashes in a circle on a square.
i stare across it all at you.
you stare through it at me.
are you still there?
are you bent up?
being burned out.
are you foggy.
am i trying now?
am i straightening?
am i dumping out the circle but hanging on to you?
are you lonely in this square?
i'm lonely in this cube.
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