Aaron Vidaver has gathered together a nice bunch of Vancouver poetry Ephemera & handsomely scanned them as a Flickr set, including these two classics from the recently departed Zonko, aka Billy Little, of Vancouver & Hornby Island, though born in Jamaica, Queens & schooled in Buffalo. A classic omnivore: the rare bookseller who got high on his own supply. He read a lot of books people think I have. Through the dark days of the Socred reign & beyond the flood of poetry, agit-prop, decals, tiny books (including Kevin Davies' first book "Despite"), broadsides & declamations that flowed through him combined genial good humor with an almost Swiftian loathing of any form of authority, his own perhaps most of all. At his best, he knew how to amp things up to the exact point where the hidden propriety of any sitation stood revealed and embarassed. Hence at one of the great Solidarity rallies in Victoria in the early 80's chanting "Hang the Socreds" (in his Queen's brogue the first syllable came out "soccer") to the grim dismay of the surrounding bused in union workers whose inner thoughts he so intemperately expressed. Billy's greatest poster was a collaboration with Scott Watson, for a fake organisation called the anti-literacy council or some such. At the top of the otherwise blank poster was the question: can you read this? Far below another: don't you wish you couldn't? A lifelong servant of language & books, but the kind of servant who might spit in the vichysoisse or short the silk sheets...