late 60's there in Venice on
the strand at Steve Richmond's
bookstore and candle shop I picked
up a free copy of Bukowski's broadside
The Genius Of The Crowd printed by
mimeograph on a legal-size piece of
white paper stinking of incense which I
had to sell over 20 years later to a book
dealer in Berkeley who probably sold it
to some cult asshole who would never
understand that sunny summer day
when it sealed the deal folded up
in my faded rear pants pocket