The Best Cigarette Billy Collins There are many that I misshaving sent my last one out a car windowsparking along the road one night, years ago.The heralded one, of course:after sex, the two glowing tipsnow the lights of a single ship;at the end of a long dinnerwith more wine to comeand a smoke ring coasting into the chandelier;or on a white beach,holding one with fingers still wet from a swim.(...) Summary The Best Cigarette by Billy Collins uses past experiences with smoking to describe the important in-between, transitory moments in ones life
Conversation should be like juggling, up go the balls and the plates, up and over, in and out
He writes in My Life in Christ : "If you wish to live long on the earth, do not hurry to live in a carnal manner, to satiate yourself, to get drunk, to smoke, to commit fornication, to live in luxury, to indulge yourself
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