Close to Ken, I used to smoke Gouloise, that was when you could smoke in
class at uni. As soon as I lit all those faces turned round - I felt like a
sailor. I quit and picked up an Italian brand similar to Marlboro, my best
now are Camel, a Pall Mall once in a while.
On Nov 13, 2007 12:02 AM, Frederick Pollack <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Kenneth Wolman" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Monday, November 12, 2007 5:51 PM
> Subject: Re: "Stutter"
>
>
> > Frederick Pollack wrote:
> >> ----- Original Message ----- From: "joe green" <[log in to unmask]>
> >> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> >> Sent: Monday, November 12, 2007 11:45 AM
> >> Subject: Re: "Stutter"
> >>
> >>
> >> Yeah! Reminds me of the time I read a certain James Dickey poem and
> then
> >> a
> >> certain Frank o"hara poem and became a pack of L&M filters.
> >>
> >>
> >> It is unwise to mix your drinks like that. And, love aside, to mess
> with
> >> Stephen Dunn's wife's underwear.
> >>
> >> God, I miss L&Ms. They had a tang.
> >
> > I dated a girl who smoked L&Ms. The woman I live with now...her father
> > smoked them. I thought they smelled like something from the chem lab.
> Me,
> > I smoked unfiltered Pall Malls. Richard Farina made them famous by
> > writing about the Paragoric Pall Mall, and someone else said every so
> > often you got a Pall Mall that smelled of/tasted a bit like marijuana.
> > Hmmm. I thought it was only me.
> >
> > I was in a tobacconist's just today, Barclay Rex on Broad Street. It
> > HURT. I've been "clean" for 2.5 years but there isn't a day that goes
> by
> > when for about 10 minutes I wouldn't sell my soul (or yours) to the
> devil
> > for a Gitanes. Bad Ken, bad bad Ken....
> >
> > Ken
> >
> >
>
> The two best cigarettes I ever smoked were from behind the Iron Curtain.
> One was called Vardar, from the former Yugoslavia. The tobacco was so
> moist
> it stained the paper. Turkish Specials come close but they're vulgar in
> comparison. The other was Belveder, from Poland. Powder-blue box with a
> thoroughly feudal palace; long hollow thick-cardboard filters, only about
> a
> stubby inch and a half of sublime tobacco. Ahhh....
>
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