Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, MY PIPE, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY


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First Line: My pipe is old
Last Line: "the boy was born."
Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway
Subject(s): Smoking; Tobacco; Pipes; Cigars; Cigarettes


MY PIPE is old
And caked with soot;
My wife remarks:
"How can you put
That horrid relic,
So unclean,
Inside your mouth?
The nicotine
Is strong enough
To stupefy
A Swedish plumber."
I reply:

"This is the kind
Of pipe I like:
I fill it full
Of Happy Strike,
Or Barking Cat
Or Cabman's Puff,
Or Brooklyn Bridge
(That potent stuff)
Or Chaste Embraces,
Knacker's Twist,
Old Honeycomb
Or Niggerfist.

I clamp my teeth
Upon its stem --
It is my bliss,
My diadem.
Whatever Fate
May do to me,
This is my favorite
B
B B.
For this dear pipe
You feign to scorn
I smoked the night
The boy was born."





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