Valued victims, sorry I meant clients held in honorable esteem <br />Did we help you realise your adolescent dream <br />Valued victims, did we turn you into debonair sophisticates <br />Did we deliver what we promised, an image that is first rate <br /> <br />Valued victims, your patronage is very important for our wealth <br />Can you please keep buying cigarettes, don't worry about your health <br />Because your health is not important, not to us and not to you <br />Just keep buying cigarettes, that's what we would like you to do <br /> <br />Valued victims, we think it is your very right to smoke <br />We would like you to that right constantly invoke <br />And if your breathing sometimes seems a little laboured <br />Just keep smoking, you'll be doing us a favour <br /> <br />(Sydney, Australia - 2005)<br /><br />Alessandra Liverani<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/valued-victims/
