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Man in drugstore loudly proclaims he wants a three-pack of Trojans then lowers his voice, "and a carton of Marlboros."
"Do cigarettes in movies mean sex?"
"Why do you bring that up?" she said accusingly.
"I read that somewhere in American Studies."
And I walked away and thought of the beautiful packaging of a box of Gitanes, blue background with the silhouette of a gypsy (gitane) dancing amid the fumes of a cigarette.
Here's to the Gitanes of yesteryear. -- DL
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Radio
I left it
on when I
left the house
for the pleasure
of coming back
ten hours later
to the greatness
of Teddy Wilson
"After You've Gone"
on the piano
in the corner
of the bedroom
as I enter
in the dark
from New and Selected Poems by David Lehman
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