Cheroot

Cheroot, who loved you

Who sucked you and left you

Every star is burned out

Every room is blackened

Cheroot

Who waved you with a flourish

In the heat of some propitious moment

Held you in their greasy hand

Stubbed you out on the edge of a can

Cheroot

Here you are at the peak of your powers

The tree of age and its creaky bowers

Who held you like a lover

Then left you for another

When you fell fragile and cold

Drowned forever in a toilet bowl

Cheroot

Happiness is fleeting my friend

You've got the half-life

Of a cesium atom to spend

Painted lips and starry night

Set alight

Seduced by the promise

Of that perfect kiss

You make nothing happen

It just happens to you

I know the feeling

My life's like that too

Cheroot