Transmogrification

Transmogrification
16 February, 2006

Nicotine is a big girl drug. For
Glamorous women, mothers, hags, too
But all of them women.
Girlish minds cloud with their
Gossamer exhalations; bows and
Dollies are discarded for the
Wretched stench of fag lingering
On infantile pink fingers.
All you have to do is blink
And the blush of children’s lips
Has transmogrified into
The scarlet stain of womanhood.