Word: salts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...found this poem in Salt Lake City on Dec. 23, 1969. It starts with a ride in the Chevy of a Boy who hates Niggers and ends at Tex Williams, ex-cowboy star who now works with the Navy YMCA in San Diego. I'm gonna to make it short cause we all have other things to do, like the people in Salt Lake City today who got no time for poems cause their babies are howling in the hungry wilderness of this nearsighted Far West beyond which Socialists, Art Teachers and Perverts are climbing up the other side...
...from the Charles Discount Store whom I noticed across the aisle who seemed not to be watching Joe clutching Julie's hard earned tips in the back of the Diner so much as wondering how, in so few years, a Jewish Family from Eastern Europe could end up in Salt Lake City selling boots to families with blinking Santas throbbing in their front yards and babies baying for wisdom in their Western cribs...
...half his grilled cheese sandwich before putting the second half, the chips and the carrot Curl into a brown paper sack and lighting a cigarette a Chesterfield and looking like Ezra Pound who was born not far from here in Hailey, Idaho. His name was Seth Morrison, born in Salt Lake in 1895, educated at Andover and Yale before going to the war in 1917 after which he returned to the West to be with his lumber trade and sawmills and remembrances of Latin Poetry and New Haven and Since his Home burned down in town he lived flippantly...
...beginning the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT) with the Soviet Union...
...concepts from The World as Will and Idea, Bishop Berkeley's assertion that existence is dependent upon individual perception; Hume's denial of the existence of absolute space. For Borges' admirers, the delicious point is simply that he takes reality with a grain of salt. Great events, vast trends, the pompous certainties implied by the French phrase grands mots -all these are not for Borges. History, that troubling angular presence that the middle-aged invoke to prove to the young that nothing ever really changes or can be changed, may not exist at all. In a typically...