Brett Evans & Chris Stroffolino
MERCENARY BEVERAGES
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4:30 a.m.

last 3 fools ali-

ing (ozzy playing?

How?) w/ gob

let of French

coffee pot

bottom fed

w/ remaining

4.5 beers of

mixed breeds.

“The glories

of miscegenation!”*

Let’s get Pagan!

& blo up the back

of the yard

w/ fire crack

ers. We must needs

cigarettes 4 punks.

Next day, epiphany-

proof vests shed

off: aspetta! we’re

not trash — panda &

bouquet of relict

bottle rocket chop

sticks from Heine

kens !


* F.S.

Noonish

3 cripples pool

ing (where’s da

p.t.) w/ chlor

inated H2 0

everywhere none

to drink (privit

ized) shorts no

pot but more per

haps social, but

the gories of

social segregation

Forget Reagan?

& blow up the knows

of the craft

with air booty

“unhip hop”. Need

on the vicadin just

can’t wait to get on

the bike again, after

noon-proof clocks

go cop-poof, yet proof

of flower law flour

power hour followers

oh yeah, the journey

man








Brett Evans escaped from New Orleans four days after Hurricane Katrina to arrive in the City of Poetic Love, Philadelphia. His new chapbook, Ways to Use Lance (Mooncalf Press).

A member of the band Continuous Peasant, Chris Stroffolino lives in Oakland, Calif. He & Brett met in New York in 1998.



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»  4:30 a.m. / last 3 fools ali- / ing

»  3 cripples pool / ing

»  on the vicadin just / can’t wait to get on



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