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Syntax Issue 10
Denver Syntax
{at last}
  brett jenkins


Wednesday we alleged
that the cigarettes poised
so matter-of-factly between
our first and second fingers
were our lasts.
Thursday, I had a new
pack in my hand
as I ducked into your car.
“The end is near,”
I said as I took a drag
and confirmed that
the best cigarette
is not your last,
but the one
just after that.