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    Web Exclusive #2 Now Available!

    We are pleased to present our second Web Exclusive here at the official What’s Your Exit? online companion: two poems by Ray Brown, a proud and formidable New Jersey writer whose work captivates readers by regaling them with poignant–but never unnecessarily gilded–stories via a comforting, familiar voice ripe with wisdom. For more of his work, [...]

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    Web Exclusive #2: Poetry by Ray Brown
     
     
     
    More Bars than Anyplace Else

    “No one has more bars than us”
    broadcast the billboard
    on Route 18 in New Brunswick, NJ,
    which initially I thought
    had to be a promotion
    of the Hoboken Chamber of Commerce.
     
    Old haunts of Hoboken.
    A bar on every corner
    the natives knew the name of each
    hard working Germans, Irish, Italians, Yugoslavs
    spent [...]