When I smoked (not much), it was Erik little cigars, but not menthol. I bought them at a smoke shop near Baruch College; I discovered them in Amish Country in New Jersey. Visiting with friends who chose to shop the outlet malls, I wanted to walk in the countryside. An Amish farmer sold me my first Eriks. Everyone forms their own resistance movement?
The Crew Is Restless and I Am Sick at Heart
The Crew Is Restless and I Am Sick at Heart
Had
to form my own resistance movement.
Had
to write, I have good feelings
about the journey but fear battles with myself.
Had
to work black felt to a beret.
Had
to suck cinders into swampy bellow.
Had
to buy Erik Little Cigars
from
an Amish farmer.
Had
to be surprised.
Had
to find them on Twenty-Third and Third.
Had
to quit.
Had
to just had to envision BBC kings
fighting
brother France
on
green-island fields,
hear
hoofbeats of scythed Mongols
thunder
on the steppes.
Had
to smile because there is a field
in
battlefield.
But of course there is also a battle.
But of course there is also a battle.
________
by Sarah Sarai. @@@ From the journal, Lyre Lyre. #5, 2013. The site is no longer live, and included in the collection Geographies of Soul and Taffeta (Indolent Books), 2016.
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