The Thursday Poem

Potted Flowers with Books IV
Eric Barjot

Giving Up Smoking

There's not a Shakespeare sonnet

Or a Beethoven quartet

That's easier to like than you

Or harder to forget.

You think that sounds extravagant?

I haven't finished yet -

I like you more than I would like

To have a cigarette.

Wendy Cope

(21st July 1945 - )