Smoking is a psychological addiction ...thus requires more than threats to kick (soiling over the pack we pay good money for merely awakening an adolescent oppositional attitude.) Also, few would be caught dead seen in public with one of those indiscreet self-help book, seemingly designed to make you feel even more ashamed of yourself. Making my first attempt to quit it struck me how similar my relationship to smoking was to the five year relationship I ended that same year. Applying that same process Love Letter &...is the story about kicking another bad habit.

1. LOVE LETTER
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2. TO MY BELOVED,
DISGUSTING
DARLING
I now feel the need to finally spill my guts allover
you, you do after all deserve to know exactly why I
have had to peel you off my body and mind, like a
parasite who has been feasting on me for much too
long.

3. EMPATHY
For a long time we were Siamese twins, now I am
standing here alone with my blood warm, thick
and slowly running down my skin making me feel
insanely alive. Once I cared for you so deeply, here I
am dragging my post other half’s eyelids open with
my yellow fingernails, spitting him right in the eye,
then smiling with relief.

4. SUGAR GENIUS
Moving right on to the worse times. Especially those I guess what I am trying to say is that we have
when I woke up from an excruciating pain in my grown apart. It is time to explore new habits and
chest, as if you overnight had transformed into a addictions, for you to be a legless parasite to
400 kg beast, sitting on top of me. It felt as if you someone else. I do not regret our time, we grew up
were set to crush my ribcage which would stab the together and regrets are as useless as foul excuses.
organs it once was protecting and continue on to cut I do wish I had taken action sooner, ever since I
through my spine as if it was made from shit. started realized you are just no doing it for me
anymore.

5. CATS
We had plenty of good times too my darling, don’t
get me wrong! You were always by my side on
glorious adventures, leaving pieces of you allover my
pieces. We set cities on fire and ecstatically inhaled
whatever chance crossed our path until we turned
grey and shriveled up, carrying on to our next
destination.

6. SLUT
I know that you will not be far away when I should
need you. Maybe we will see each other now and
then. If the urge should strike me and I won’t be
able to resist sucking on you for a bit, it will merely
be a short lived, sappy reunion between two old
friends. It will have to stay very occasional and
casual so I won’t fall back into my old, familiar
pattern.

7. FB SURPRISE
You have made me wonder if familiarity is actually a I have to admit, I haven’t always been faithful.
friend, or just a foe, that will mutilate my dreams. In my defense, most of those times I was pretty
wasted and just about anything would do at that
point, instant gratification, that was all. No one ever
tasted as good as you do.

8. DOORS
Not a day will pass for many years ahead where
I won’t think of you. When I hear the sound of a
lighter and smelling whatever chemicals it is your
kind exerts. Times when I spot a half of you lying
wasted in the gutter, just like I used to waste you.
When I hear someone coughing a nostalgic wave
will drag me under water for a while and you will
seem to have a damned, Gloria floating over you.

9. EPILO
In the end I would like to admit that parts of me
wish we could stay together forever but I just simply
cannot afford you painting my insides with black, rot
and death anymore.

10. GOODBYE SLUT
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