barber shop

there is a man outside
of the
barber shop,
smoking.
the billboard on
santa monica boulevard
says
two million
seven hundred sixty three thousand
nine hundred and forty
two
people died this year
because of
smoking.
so the man will die,
the barber will die,
the scissors will die,
the swirling sign will die,
the red and blue will die,
the street will die.
the tobacco companies and
their employees are not to blame
working is not a crime
but deliberately wasting your life
amongst so many deliberately
wasted lives
is.