Basil LaGargle (Regional Sales Manager, Borders Books):We haven't had this kind of reaction since that last Harry Potter book came out. And never for a book of poetry. It's a first for us. People were standing in line at midnight.
Marty Sherman:
I heard that several fights broke out and a couple people got stabbed in South Central L.A.
M. Alan Pennywhistle:
The stabbings are a tragedy. Just a complete shame.
Marty Sherman:
Actually, Dirk's probably laughing somewhere right now, just thinking that a person got cut over a chance to buy his book. It's a book of poetry, for crying out loud!
Basil LaGargle:
We were completely sold out within an hour, but we've ordered more and expect a second shipment in by next week. Hopefully, we can meet the demand. I've heard that many Catholics were planning on giving the book as Easter gifts.
Longing No Longing
hunger no hunger
lust no lust
love no love
fear no fear
hate as a matter of course
Push...Shove...What's The Diff?
To travel all the roads until the final road is reached
As they wind through forest & field, through town & city
Staggersteer stumblejog through rain & snow & wind & fog
Forward more often than not, left here, right there
Until yes, right there it looms, up ahead
The end of the journey, that final road
Memories fall away as the world becomes
A single dark, scarred brick cul-de-sac
Overflowing trash cans here
A stack of bones there
Rats and roaches
Scurrying through
The shadows
In your haste, you must have missed that
Aging, faded sign back there,
That lemon and rust colored
Diamond, riddled with
Bullet holes,
Letters black
As midnight
That read:
IIINO
OUTLET
-Prof. Dirk Beat
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