Picayunes

I discovered, from observing the trash-basket outside her door, that her regular reading consisted of tabloids and travel folders and astrological charts; that she smoked an esoteric cigarette called Picayunes; survived on cottage cheese and melba toast; that her vari-colored hair was somewhat self-induced.

Breakfast At Tiffany's Capote, Truman, 1924- 1958

I discovered, from observing the trash-basket outside her door, that her regular reading consisted of tabloids and travel folders and astrological charts; that she smoked an esoteric cigarette called Picayunes; survived on cottage cheese and melba toast; that her vari-colored hair was somewhat self-induced.

Breakfast At Tiffany's Capote, Truman, 1924- 1958

Tapping a cigarette out of his pack of Picayunes I have an entire sub-section of stories on the lengths we sometimes went to in order to find Picayunes in places like Twin Falls, Idaho Cardoso slid across the room to Neuwirth and stuck the Pic in his mouth.

Hullabaloo 2006

Tapping a cigarette out of his pack of Picayunes I have an entire sub-section of stories on the lengths we sometimes went to in order to find Picayunes in places like Twin Falls, Idaho Cardoso slid across the room to Neuwirth and stuck the Pic in his mouth.

Hullabaloo 2006

Tapping a cigarette out of his pack of Picayunes I have an entire sub-section of stories on the lengths we sometimes went to in order to find Picayunes in places like Twin Falls, Idaho Cardoso slid across the room to Neuwirth and stuck the Pic in his mouth.

Hullabaloo 2006

And for Mike I just stroll into the Park Lane Liquor Store and ask for a bottle of Strega and then I go back where I came from, to 6th Avenue and the tobacconist in the Ziegfeld Theatre, and casually ask for a carton of Gauloises and a carton of Picayunes and a New York Post with her face on it.

Remarks At Millennium Lecture Series ITY National Archives 1998

Picayunes will be playing their first Jacksonville show so make sure and come out to see the premier of this new band.

Urban Jacksonville 2008

Liquor Store and ask for a bottle of Strega and then I go back where I came from to 6th Avenue and the tobacconist in the Ziegfeld Theatre and casually ask for a carton of Gauloises and a carton of Picayunes, and a NEW YORK POST with her face on it and I am sweating a lot by now and thinking of leaning on the john door in the 5 SPOT while she whispered a song along the keyboard to Mal Waldron and everyone and I stopped breathing

John Lundberg: The Poet on New York's Streetcorners 2010

Liquor Store and ask for a bottle of Strega and then I go back where I came from to 6th Avenue and the tobacconist in the Ziegfeld Theatre and casually ask for a carton of Gauloises and a carton of Picayunes, and a NEW YORK POST with her face on it and I am sweating a lot by now and thinking of leaning on the john door in the 5 SPOT while she whispered a song along the keyboard to Mal Waldron and everyone and I stopped breathing

John Lundberg: The Poet on New York's Streetcorners 2010

Liquor Store and ask for a bottle of Strega and then I go back where I came from to 6th Avenue and the tobacconist in the Ziegfeld Theatre and casually ask for a carton of Gauloises and a carton of Picayunes, and a New York Post with her face on it and I am sweating a lot by now and thinking of leaning on the john door in the 5 Spot while she whispered a song along the keyboard to Mal Waldron and everyone and I stopped breathing

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