This is a really neat story. I don't think I could sustain myself in a New York City apartment this way, but it's still cool. Via CBS News:
Outside a busy supermarket, Zach Houston isn't looking for a hangout. He's trying to make a living — as a poet.
"Need a poem written while you shop?" Houston asks shoppers. "Need a poem written?"
Houston is the supermarket poet of Berkeley, Calif., reports CBS News correspondent John Blackstone.
"Poems with your groceries? Need a poem?" Houston asks. "What do you want a poem about?"
He’ll give you a poem about anything.
How about "a poem about affordable housing in Berkeley?" a woman asks him.
"Love and motorcycles?" another customer requests.
On his manual typewriter, itself pretty much an oddity these days, Houston taps out his poems as his clients shop or wait expectantly.
Read the whole article here. Kind of makes Avenue Q's opening song "What do you do with a B.A. in English" come alive, no?
