Jules Laforgue – The cigarette
Fernand Khnopff, The Cigarette, 1912 Yes, this world is flat and boring: as for the other, bullshit!I myself go resigned to my fate, without hope,and to kill time while awaiting death,I smoke slender cigarettes thumbing my nose at the gods.Onward, you living, keep up the fight, poor future skeletons,I am plunged into infinite ecstasy by …