Giving Up Smoking - Wendy Cope

There’s not a Shakespeare sonnet

Or a Beethoven quartet

That’s easier to like than you

Or harder to forget.

You think that sounds extravagant?

I haven’t finished yet –

I like you more than I would like

To have a cigarette.

- Cope says that no-one can understand what an intense love poem this is unless they have been addicted to nicotine and I totally agree.