“we
sat there
smoking
cigarettes
at
5
in the morning.”

“Can I still smoke my cigarettes and have my coffee”

“[when asked about cigarettes] I don't recommend them… but I smoke them.”

“Wrapped in a police blanket, I watched the rain and smoked one black cigarette after another…”

“Side by Side:
We sat side by side in the morning light & looked out at the future together.”

“I lay a little while, naked, mottled, sallow, emaciated, smoking a cigarette that should have been postcoital but was not.”

“Every word I never spoke dies like a spark smothered in smoke pulled from the glow of a shitty cigarette.”

“The scent and smoke and sweat of a casino are nauseating at three in the morning.”

“It was as if he grew his hair long and smoked cigarettes because he liked to, not because he liked being seen to. This was dangerously subversive.”

“Mind you, sometimes the angels smoke, hiding it with their sleeves, and when the archangel comes, they throw the cigarettes away: that’s when you get shooting stars.”