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BOX OF CIGARS by GERALD STERN

Poet Analysis

First Line: IO TRIED EITHER ONE OR TWO BUT THEY WERE STALE
Last Line: Into his empty can. We were visionaries
Subject(s): SMOKING; TOBACCO; PIPES; CIGARS; CIGARETTES;
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