The frustrations of publishing, as Ibbetson #59 had to be pulled back because it was printed with corrupted poems. My poem Stalked By An Orb You Barely Know appears in the wonderful print mag, Ibbetson Street (#59), and Doug Holder gave me a copy of the unreleased, pulled-back edition at the Boston Poetry Marathon.
My poem was one of the corrupted ones (line-breaks), but you can read it here, as intended in a google doc .
Maybe the issues with the printing mistakes can become a collector's item. Historically, these things become potentially valuable, even when unintended.
Does anyone remember Billy Ripken's baseball card? Billy had a card that became one of the most valuable cards of all time. Why? When posing for his annual baseball card, he grabbed a bat he had marked with a marker on the knob so that he wouldn't use it in a game. He did this for all his batting practice bats. What he wrote on this one was "Fuck Face" which no one at Fleer noticed until it was too late. Then pulled production and photoshopped the Ripken card, but the ones making it out into the world became valuable collectors' items.
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As for the poem itself, I was joking with someone about being a stalker and was challenged to write a funny poem about it. It is part of my orb series and part of my next book These New Orbs.
