Friday, October 25, 2024

Left Without a Cigarette

A forty-year old pack of matches
Swiped from the Princeton Club in New York
Delights you when its matches still light.

Of all the functional odds and ends
Of human worlds forty years ago—
That this one should be still functional,

Still able to light a candle, still
Able to start a well-built campfire,
These paper matches, this battered pack.

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