----- 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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