Literature Talk at the County Fair

[rowens]

Literature Talk at the County Fair

Poe Carroll Bukowski dumb stuff Thompson
go down a row, you got your

Lovecraft Crowley Gaiman, stuff like that . . .
William Burroughs, and occasionally  Philip Dick & David Lynch.

Then, you got your Stephen King and Anne Rice and
your V. C. Andrews.

Mostly it's Harry Potter. Mostly, it is.
And no one's ever anymore heard of the Marquis de Sade.
They just use his name in vain.

And there aren't many sexy ones around,
mostly young—but fat—  and mostly talk 
about Poe and Thompson,
Poe and Carroll, like they talk about Dahmer and Manson.
Very few's heard of Bukowski, other than the name.

And I say I've never read any of them;
that's the safest way to get laid.