Maureen's house

Under the bushes

at Maureen's house,

I smoked my first and last cigarettes. 

I was probably 16 

and upset about a boy, I think. 

This will help, she said. 

But it didn't. 

When things in the world 

are not going right,

Like these days,

I wish something as simple

as smoking a cigarette 

could fix it.

But it won't.