ANNA OF HAVANA

By Aleister Crowley

With Drawings by Reginald Birch

Published in Vanity Fair

New York, New York, U.S.A.

January 1916

(page 43)

A cigar is like a wife!

Put it up to your lips, and light it;

When you’ve learnt to do it right, it

Adds a certain zest to life.

Mind you keep on puffing it,

Or it’s out, and can’t be lit.

Ah, the aroma! Ah, the glow!

Will I have one! Thank you, No.