Smoking Rings of Evening

The other night I wrote a poem with a Russian friend of mine. He classified it as an example of an English nonsense poem but I prefer to call it a cross cultural poem. The poetry is his and the nonsense is mine. Just to clarify the word 'fag' is English slang for cigarette.

Smoking Rings of Evening

We’ll take a walk

on a late evening

When the glow is

slowly fading.

The heat of the day

leads us away

And we sit like donkeys

eating hay.

And I will smoke

And you will joke

And people will choke

and gag like a hag

‘Cause the fag

in my hand

is burning.

Alexander Bogdanov and Luke Harrison ©2006