by Kasandra Larsen
Note to user: an unlit cigarette will not activate
the imagination or the body to teleportation; initiation
of the time-travel capacity requires ignition. Turn
the lighter’s wheel, strike the match. Bring the device
to primed lips and inhale; watch the tip glow
like insight, a personal firefly. Within ten seconds
you will feel a sensation of dissociation; this is normal,
soul splitting from the body temporarily to facilitate
flight. The day’s mundane conversations, petty
irritations will vanish, left behind. The view moves
inward, eyes now effectively blind to everything
but breath and mind. Successive inhalations spark
reflective mechanisms, ensure a seamless travel
experience: as all time is now, you may zoom forward,
flip back, skip from childhood to just before death.
Disclaimer: the length of your experience may differ
and will depend on variable factors, such as filter
length, lung capacity and the ability to hold your breath.