True ^
People were obsessed with poetry, poetry slams, and live poetry readings.
in 1993/94, while at college, I was part of the student program board which set up concerts, movies, and other entertainments on campus for the students. We were one of the stops for MTV's spoken word tour.
I remember some of the street poets, on of which asked me about my homemade hat (which my GF had made for me from the sleeve of a long-sleeve T shirt) He said peeps in NYC would want it.
Maggie Estep was one of them, and so was John S. Hall from spoken word band KING MISSILE.
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The best part of it all for me was that the host was a very inebriated GIBBY HAYNES from the almighty Butthole Surfers. He was late arriving, MC'd the event and walked out. I followed him to where he was smoking cigarrettes outside the Hotel & restaurant managament college. I shared a smoke with him and kept the butt.