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August 20, 2021

if you ask me if i’ve seen bruce springsteen today one more time

alexis briscuso

i will lose my goddamn mind. no, he doesn’t live on the boardwalk. no, he doesn’t come to asbury park every day. no, i haven’t seen him sauntering up to the stone pony bar. no, he never gave me his parking spot on a crowded saturday night. no, he never grabbed a lemonade from the stand directly dead center on the promenade. and no, i’ve only seen him once at the wonder bar. fuck. yeah, okay. sit down, then. so it was a wild friday night.

alexis briscuso is a poet, journalist, film critic and radio dj living in brooklyn. she worked at the stone pony in asbury park throughout high school and early college. you can read her work in hobart, maudlin house, HAD, vagabond city, WAS quarterly, noble gas quarterly, and you flower/you feast anthology. her horror and genre radio show, YOUR NICHE IS DEAD, airs live mondays 5-6pm only on kpiss.fm. she tweets and instagrams @nikonamerica.