Cigars

"Cigars       

What is it about cigars? 

Karsh famously commandeered Churchill’s 

Kentridge’s Soho Eckstein is rarely without 

T.S. Eliot’s Bleistein has his ‘smoky candle end of time’ 

Pink and black, they dominate Philip Guston’s art 

Unforgettable for Bill Clinton, a ‘Cuban missile crisis’ all his own. 

expensive, ritualized, clubby, rarefied,  

masculine, redolent, monopolizing 

suffusing clothes and head 

sucking out the air 

stultifying 

my dad  

loved them! "