We called on bookstores. Hand’s and the bookstore
in the Delray Mall had my book. Or they sold out
and didn’t reorder, because I was giving them away.
I don’t remember. I remember the Delray Library
didn’t have it, because the librarian said they only bought
books that were reviewed in the New York Times or
Publishers Weekly. Not small press books. This was
not true, but it was her library—what could I do?
I made fun of them in my column in the News-Journal.
I compared
Small-town chauvinism.
The burghers were midgets.
Pecksniffs and fundamentalist ministers.