Name: Corrida Honduras Robusto+
Country: Honduras
Shape: Parejo
Size: (5 inches x 56)
Strength: Medium
I liked the Corrida Honduras better than the Corrida Nicaragua. Although both of them were well-constructed and flavorful, I found the former a little more expressive and a little more — beautiful. Its most prominent notes were of cocoa powder, earth, and black pepper.
Name: Condega Serie F Arsenio
Country: Nicaragua
Shape: Parejo
Size: (5 1/2 inches x 50)
Strength: Medium
I’m smoking a working-class man’s cigar
on the terrace,
drinking,
thinking about the past
and the masks I had to wear
to get here,
to a place so near
to the stars…
I’m thinking about my father
and how he would have enjoyed smoking cigars
and drinking beer
with me.
He would have been proud…
I believe I’m where I want to be,
but there are other places I need to be.
There are all sorts of hats I need to wear,
all sorts of shoes I need to fill,
and so on,
and so forth.
And there are dreams I need to kill,
all sorts of destinies I need to fulfill,
and so on,
and so on forever, it seems.
Smoking a cigar on the terrace,
I’m texting a friend
whose cigar didn’t burn as well as mine
today.
And doesn’t this remind me of
something incomprehensible called
luck,
and how lucky I am to possess it?
I’m getting hints of earth.
I’m thinking, “I’ll get a lot of it
when they finally bury me.”
I’m getting hints of maple and honey.
This is how sweet life tastes right now.
And now and then, tonight,
I’m refilling my glass,
and I will do so until
I have no more dreams to kill
and no more to remember,
until it’s time for me to sleep.
Name: La Aroma Del Caribe Mi Amor Robusto
Country: Nicaragua
Size: Robusto (5 inches x 50)
Strength: Medium to Full
There will be good days, and there will be bad days.
Sometimes, you’ll experience success; other times, you’ll experience failure.
As it is wearily sung in the chorus of one of the best songs
of The Rolling Stones, “You can’t
always get what you want.”
No, you can’t always get what you want.
And whether you’re a stoic or not, you’ll have to accept that
sooner or later.
You have the power to make things happen,
to change something in the world,
to change the whole world.
However, when you’re out there trying hard,
remember that
while you try to make things happen,
things will happen to you, too.
Before you change the world,
the world might change you.
Bored Absurdist 