Buy Cigarettes!

Malka Lee

1925–1926

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This text contains depictions of sexual violence. It provides insight into history; however, The Posen Library does not condone or promote violence of any kind.
Cigarettes! Cigarettes!
My voice rings through the streets
With eyes overcast, cloudy—
Buy! Buy! Buy!
Hunting foxes—Cossacks ride—
With horseshoes like scythes—
And cut down sounds like sheaves:
Buy! Buy! Cigarettes!
Cossack and horse dance in a circle,
So I jump into the whirl,
Stroke the horsehide with quiet fear,
The way I stroke my…
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