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Zork

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“I aspire one day to become the Poet Laureate of sugared cereals,
but first my ploy with be for Plenty of Pez
...
I can dole out decadently delicious
tiny pieces of colored candy
and let the sugar rush do most of my work for me
It's cheating through confections
but clearly I don't care”
-- Eric ZORK Alan, “I am NOT a poet” [the PEZ poem, p. 167]

Zork is probably best known for standing on chairs.  It just so happens that when upon a chair he belches out PopTart, Pez, & Push Ups poems.  He is known for gratuitously dropping names... like that he is the only poet ever to have his book [appropriately called “I am NOT a poet”] blurbed by Davy Jones, Dobie Gray, Wild Cherry & even Ron Jeremy. Of course, what do they know about poetry!?  So he will also drop the names of Hal Sirowitz, Roger Bonair Agard, & Gary Mex Glazner for writing book blurbs.  All of this doesn't mean Zork doesn't still suck...he might very well.... But he is certainly good at two things... Binging on blurbs and standing on chairs.  Come and decide for yourself... You may even get fed a Pez or a PopTart [whoever said poetry doesn't have it's perks].  For more info on what Zork is up to check out www.stolensnapshots.com.