{"id":2376,"date":"2026-03-16T06:50:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-15T20:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billkochman.com\/Blog\/?p=2376"},"modified":"2026-03-16T06:50:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-15T20:50:09","slug":"dont-take-that-toke-a-poem-by-bill-kochman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billkochman.com\/Blog\/index.php\/dont-take-that-toke-a-poem-by-bill-kochman\/","title":{"rendered":"DON’T TAKE THAT TOKE — a poem and song by BBB"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/p>\n

#Poetry #Poem<\/p>\n

DON’T TAKE THAT TOKE<\/p>\n

by Bill Kochman<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.billkochman.com\/Poetry<\/a><\/p>\n

12-05-2016<\/p>\n

When people are really young,
\nPeers say smoking is so cool,
\nBut so often many years later,
\nThey see they played the fool.<\/p>\n

When they lay dying of cancer,
\nThey remember that first smoke,
\nAnd how they wish to dear God,
\nThey had never taken that toke.<\/p>\n

Dying of lung cancer isn’t easy,
\nYour body fills with great pain,
\nMorphine can only do so much,
\nIt will almost drive you insane.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

#Poetry #Poem DON’T TAKE THAT TOKE by Bill Kochman https:\/\/www.billkochman.com\/Poetry 12-05-2016 When people are really young, Peers say smoking is so cool, But so often many years later, They see they played the fool. When they lay dying of cancer, … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4772,3],"tags":[20,21,22,1469,139,135,134,30],"class_list":["post-2376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-posts","category-poetry","tag-bill-kochman","tag-bills-bible-basics","tag-christian","tag-dont-take-that-toke","tag-original","tag-poem","tag-poems","tag-poetry"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billkochman.com\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billkochman.com\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billkochman.com\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billkochman.com\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billkochman.com\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2376"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.billkochman.com\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2376\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38149,"href":"https:\/\/www.billkochman.com\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2376\/revisions\/38149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billkochman.com\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billkochman.com\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billkochman.com\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}