🧚‍♀️Night Dew🧚‍♀️

#vss365 #Poetry #Bonfire   I’ve never gone to smoker’s corner outside behind the building at work because I don’t smoke   other than the occasional cigar with a band that says “It’s a Boy!” or “It’s a Girl!” handed out by friends whenever a new member of their family has a coming out party    but I do hear wild tales told by hardened smokers of the many adventures experienced by those brave souls who do go to smoker’s corner religiously several times a day   like the time a guy named Carmine was struck in the forehead by a flying rock kicked up by a weed whacker operated by a groundskeeper working adjacent to smoker’s corner   Carmine was knocked unconscious carried off on a stretcher loaded into an ambulance and never seen again   “he could have lost an eye if it was one inch lower,” one old smoker told me    or another time when the smokers started a fire in the dumpster to keep warm in winter   they kept it going for days inviting other smokers from adjacent buildings to join them  roasting marshmallows and hotdogs on sticks causing my office to smell like a festive bonfire   until a non-smoker called the fire department who came immediately with sirens blaring and red lights flashing  to put it out   the fire chief admonished the smokers for violating a number of laws and regulations then enrolled them all in a fire safety program designed specifically for recalcitrant smokers   📸 me