Unluckies

I walked into a bodega that sold loosies and bought two Lucky Strikes, the short unfiltered variety. I put them in my shirt pocket and thought that I should probably just buy a pack too. And then I walked out to the street before realizing that I hadn’t bought that pack.

I smoked my last cigarette a little over thirty-six years ago. And I still dream about cigarettes now and then. And though I’ve sometimes bought cigarettes in a dream, I’ve never smoked in one.

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[“Only fools and children talk about their dreams”: Dr. Edward Jeffreys (Robert Douglas), in Thunder on the Hill (dir. Douglas Sirk, 1951).]