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Michael Pendragon wrote:

> On Monday, August 1, 2022 at 2:43:06 AM UTC-4, Will Dockery wrote:
>> Michael Pendragon wrote:
>> > Will Dockery wrote:
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>> >> >> Circulation 10,000 copies a month for almost twenty years.
>> >> >> My monthly column and poetry in every issue for nearly twenty years.
>> >
>> >> >> Again, who here can top that?
>> >
>> >> > Anyone who's had one poem published in a small press/indie *poetry* zine with a circulation of 100 copies.
>>
>> Again, you flatter yourself, and you glorify your small press days. I was involved in small press myself, and edited a poetry and art zine for years (which was listed in Poet's Market during the mid-1990s), so I know that scene well, also.
>
>> >> My poetry and column was published monthly at 10,000 copies per issue for nearly twenty years.
>> >>
>> >> In other words, I topped your lifetime circulation in one month.
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>

> If you had 10K monthly readers


Playgrounds Magazine had that circulation, every month for nearly twenty years, that's a fact.

> you'd be more successful, and better known, than Bukowski.

That's debatable, of course.

> Mickey Rourke would have played you in a movie (or, perhaps Avery Schreiber).

"Barfly" was a great movie, even though Bukowski didn't like it.

Faye Dunaway as Buk's alcoholic girlfriend, another brilliant performance from one of my all-time favorite actresses.

And so it goes.