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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...
...here the poem ends with Tex Williams riding off in the sleeted night in the white bus to his Alpine Lodge and the Far Western Stars twinkling America up Above...
THESE lines by Rolfe Humphries were written in response to a TIME reader's comment on an earlier Humphries poem. The first work was commissioned by TIME and accompanied our story on the reopening of Belmont Park race track in 1968. Humphries, himself a racing buff, set down his own memories of Belmont's sights, sounds and hues. Reader Robert F. Kelley of Manhattan wrote TIME'S editors, thanking them for the poem and for "stirring the breeze of memory so that it moves a few lovely leaves on the old trees." We published the letter...
...makes an adventure of exploring his own senses and extends his discoveries with the use of sex and drugs. As in his politics, he is searching for a shortcut to euphoria, to a mystical oneness with-not God perhaps, but something quite approximate. Samuel Taylor Coleridge composed his ecstatic poem Kubla Khan under the influence of opium. The rock romantics of the Dylan generation prefer...
Despite this, and other failures. Aphra is saved by one poem, one short story, and one play. The poem, "New Year's Inventory" by Barbara Harr has light, suggestive humor...