Viceroy Boy In Development Poem by Bill Grace

After 'Desert Storm'
after active duty
the Air Force awarded
a 20% dissablility
for breathing,
I am grateful for the tax break.

I am even more grateful
to my Father
who catching me smoking
the third time at age eight,
Viceroy the favored brand,
had some intense words.

'Bill, the next time
I catch you smoking
I am going
to knock your block off! '

Quitting was easy eleven years
before the Surgeon General's report
because I knew smoking was hazardous
to my health.