no thanks - i don't smoke

By Alexandru I. Vilt

What do you say when the world offers you everything it has - and none of it is enough?

no thanks - i don't smoke is the second poetry collection by Alexandru Vilt, award-winning author of Poems of the New Evangelion - and it is grunge poetry. Raw, dark, alive, and refusing to be clean. Thirty-one poems that move through radical solitude, cybernetic alienation, unrequited longing, and the stubborn refusal to disappear.

Where Poems of the New Evangelion built its world from myth and apocalypse, this collection builds it from the ordinary and the broken - machines that replicate humans, deaf girls on shores, cigarettes offered and refused, angels fallen into rock bars and postal offices. The mythology here is domestic, ironic, and nakedly personal.

This is poetry that doesn't apologize. It doesn't clean itself up. It sits in the dark with a lighter and writes anyway - because that's what survival looks like when you're paying attention.

"dark and brilliant poetry - once I even thought, 'So that's what Kurt was saying.'" - Goodreads reviewer, verified reader

For those who know that beauty lives in the rough edges. For those who stayed up too late listening to Nirvana and felt understood. For those who were offered the cigarette - and said no thanks.

"no thanks - i don't smoke."

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0GWHP4J5X
• ISBN13: 9798255378050
• Release Date: April 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 58 Pages
• Weight: 0.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 5.0" x 8.0"