Dear HCN, I wish to thank my detractors, who have flailed away at me and my poem, Advice for visitors to Rock Springs (HCN, 9/16/96). One accused me of being full of shit. Darn it, it’s probably true, and may be the main reason I write at all. I’m glad HCN liked the poem enough […]
Chris Ransick
Posted inAugust 19, 1996: Western voices
Advice for visitors to Rock Springs
(Note: this article was printed in a broken-line poetic format; this online version does not preserve that format.) If you stop at the diner on the outskirts of town, skip the soup full of dust from Indian graves, the rinds of bad winters bobbing in a mean meat broth. Avoid the acid coffee & too […]