Practical Smoke

Lungfulls to death, it's a statement;
life is too short to semi-colon, one
must go for the full poop. 

In and out and digest again, poison
is your apartment story:
permanent income stream
on the River Denial.

Temporariness threatens to choke
that which might ember, smoke
of oxygenated will
a shout into empty time:

You may defeat me in the end
but this unclocked moment
I've mined for all practical purposes.