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The speaker associates taste and nicotine with a hangman, a remembered smell of Hell and the shadow someone watches.

The speaker describes appetite as a threat to the body. The hangman and nicotine support a reading about danger and compulsion, without specifying a diagnosis or a real execution.

'Hi' begins 'I would have never thought to think / Well, cockie is a part of it / Not so long I smelled like Hell', warns 'Watch out when there is a taste / The better it is / The more the hangman likes it', and ends 'Now it is not the shadow / you watch / When the nicotinE hits'.

The friendly title opens a poem about pleasure and danger. The hangman line makes enjoyment part of the risk, and the ending places the danger in the habit itself rather than in a shadow. Cockie is kept as typed. The last word joins typed ni with handwritten cotinE, and that mixed case remains a provisional reading.