Dime Bag of Verse
From Plastic Tub
| A form of literary distribution built on the model of peddling drugs, particularly the technique practised by street dealers in Washington Square Park or along St. Mark's Avenue, New York City. Tim Wilson developed the technique, inspired by accounts of Addisson's Amway-style poetry samples. The procedure was such:
The poet creates the poem first -- preferably on easily-foldable documents, such as receipts, old-glue strips of masking tape, pare strips of any sort but requiring in their structure the fortitude necessary to crouch through the rollers of an analog typing machine, the IBM Selectric -- particular model unimportant. Non-Canonical TextWhen the Police investigated further, they decided to give him a ticket for loitering and told him to go home. |
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