Best Ashtrays Poems

Where I live, you have to ask for one.
And there may not be one
but you know how it used to be and
now you don't, so much.

Lighten up anyway, 'cause hey
and hay didn't used to be so
far away from those
incredible cafe ashtrays.

Once upon a time
in a...

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You stepped straight
from a half-shell
and remotely were, you,
the pearl of my eye.

When magazine snapshots
and Hepburn dresses
fell to ashes around you,
I cupped my hands and blushed.

We made eighteen
an intangible,
hopping down from windows
to our tepid rendezvous.

In a Monetian sea
of ashtrays
and honesty
we didn’t dare speak

If we were there...

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