Blue in the Face Page #6

and drink forties all day and...

That's all he does. I mean, I think

he smokes a pound of weed a day.

He's my boyfriend, but I'm gonna change him

because he got too much Brooklyn in him.

Pack of Luckys?

You know what? No.

I'll tell you what.

I've got one cigarette left...

and I decided I was

gonna come here, I'm gonna quit.

But I wanted

to smoke this with you.

So I thought, you know,

"Last cigarette, smoke it with Auggie."

- In fact... Hey, Jimmy.

- You're kidding me? I'm touched.

Would you take a picture of me

and Auggie with my last cigarette?

- You just push this.

- Yeah.

- This is it, man.

- All right.

- Where do you want me to stand?

- I don't know.

- Think you could come over here?

- All right.

- Yeah. You just push this.

- This one?

No, this one.

- All right?

- Yeah.

- Bob, you know...

- The last cigarette... with Auggie.

I'm touched you would want

to smoke your last cigarette with me.

Twelve years I come in here. Luckys.

Wait, Jimmy. Your finger's in front.

All right.

- All right. Thanks, man.

- Good. You got it, Jimmy.

Good. Okay. You got it.

Thanks. So this is it.

One more cigarette.

I remember

my first cigarette, man.

These friends of mine, they stole cigarettes

from this store, Beeler's Pharmacy.

I still remember. It was like a suburb

of Akron, Ohio where I grew up.

So we walked home along

the railroad tracks. Opened the pack.

I still remember.

It was like a pack of Newports.

We smelled 'em first. You know,

that menthol. It smelled like candy.

Then we lit 'em up.

We started inhaling, coughing.

- A couple minutes later,

we're sick, nauseous, dizzy.

- But we felt so cool. You know?

- Yeah.

Real bad-ass

ten-year-old kids smokin'.

But sex and cigarettes, man,

you gotta admit.

- That's one thing I'm really gonna miss, having a cigarette.

- Sex?

- Well...

- You giving up sex also because you can't smoke afterwards?

Maybe, you know, if...

l- I've never had a girlfriend who didn't smoke.

Maybe that means if I quit,

I'll never have sex again. I don't know.

But having a cigarette

after sex, that's like...

A cigarette never tasted like that, you know?

Share a cigarette with your lover.

- That's bliss.

- That I'm gonna miss.

Also with coffee.

Coffee and cigarettes, you know?

That's like

breakfast of champions.

- Hey, my man. Hey.

- What's happenin'?

Want some coffee?

Don't get lint

on your outfit.

Lint? No, I hate lint.

Lint ain't no good for me.

- Let me ask you somethin'.

- What do you want to ask me?

I got a job interview

at 209-1/2...

See, man. Is there any nurses

livin' in the neighborhood?

Nurses? There's a hospital

five blocks up on the left-hand side.

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