BUY NOTHING DAY 11/28/03


photo: Rochelle Ratner
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beer run

by Chris Brandt
 

Up out of beer posters burgeon young women

at deli, bodega, convenience store –

I am transfixed by their

nearly naked breasts and by smiles

that promise if I buy their beer

I get to . . .

 

 


                         . . . have a beer.

stoned,
sitting farting
on the head

by Chris Brandt
 

stoned, sitting farting on the head, I stare

at the cover of a matchbook –

blue-green, on one side the logo of Winston Cigarettes,

on the other, ‘When we say, “No Boundaries” we mean it.’

What? No boundaries?

Each match herein bears possible arson.

No boundaries?

All the matches at once

an accident, too fast. No boundaries?

Cilia clog with tars

in millions of lungs - no boundaries?

Profit above all - no boundaries?

 

 

 

 


   


 

"beer run" and "stoned, sitting farting on the head" © 2003 Chris Brandt

Photo © 2003 Rochelle Ratner

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