I started smoking at about 12 or 13 and carried on for about two decades.
An excerpt from my book, WORKSHY...
"We all smoked and drank in our family from an early age. I was on the fags regularly from about thirteen. I smoked my mother’s and father’s. Peter Stuyvesant soft packs. In high school I would get some lunch or lunch money, along with about four smokes. One morning I left my lunch and extra smokes at home and my mother took them up to the school office so they could give them to me at lunchtime. ‘He likes a couple of smokes on his way to school and on his way home,’ she informed them. They gave me the lunch money but not the smokes. I marched to the Principal’s office full of teen righteousness to argue my case. Wearing my old faded jeans with ‘Dave’ sewn across the arse. That square got a fright. But I didn’t get my fags back".
The smoking years
I loved the soft packs
European style – toasted
I was in surplus
I had a life to burn
later came the bulk packets
the bad burning, no name, loosely packed
I was in surplus
I had a life to burn
started on Trent, ended up Embassy
Zippo lighter, engraved, scrimshaw
still got it!
chain smokin’ , blowin’ smoke rings
beyond words
like an actor – any actor! - it was a great act!
a prop – way up high
hidden in a cloud
I was in surplus
I had a life to burn
Everything Was Funny- Dave Graney and Clare Moore album out in October
itunes pre order link
https://music.apple.com/au/album/everything-was-funny/1583892134
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