I have found a tobacco company that I like. They have been in business over two hundred years Since the seventeen eighties Enough time To get it right.
Even More Almost Haiku by an Almost Old Man [cycle number 3]
Song Cycle by Richard Farber (b. 1945)
1. My tobacco company
Language: English
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2. My wife asks me to stop smoking
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My wife asks me to stop smoking. She says that it is bad for my health. I only smoke three or four or five pipes a weeks I tell her that statistically it won’t kill me Sta - tis - tickle-ly
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3. My pipe
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My pipe takes longer than half an hour to smoke I don’t have the energy to teach much any more I need to sleep a lot longer. I write almost poems and compose only the music that I want to hear. Is retirement is a joy?
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4. Write about the personal
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“Write about the personal That will interest the Universe Write about the universal That won’t interest a soul” “Please feel free to criticize” I tell my wife “You have all the time in the world” Maybe a decade Maybe a year Maybe a month Maybe until tomorrow morning.
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