Stan at Soho Zat selling Bad Newz
fanzines from a spinner rack —
10 or 20 every ish
Stan turned round reliably
Stan would actually pay
an EZ going operator
out there in his way
before social internet
Zat supported youth culture
moving comic books & zines…
no mobile phones then!
that place just a memory
packed in Soho Zat,
arcane klumps of history…
celebrating that!
© 2021 by bob plainwilder
More bob plainwilder poems:
–edward hopper appliquè (this one’s dedicated to all the visionary painters out there)
–me, a teenage muckrake (dedicated to artists interested in free speech and making social progress thru art)