1:32:01
They're even talking
about it on the TV news.
1:32:06
There's a man from the radio
station over at the doughnut...
1:32:09
and a story about some kids burning
down the school near Boston.
1:32:13
It all started here in Queens, Jim,
at the World of Doughnuts...
1:32:17
about a year ago, when local garbage
man Simon Grim began to compose...
1:32:23
what many regard as vicious, anti
social and pornographic poetry.
1:32:28
This is outrageous!
1:32:29
Measures must be taken.
1:32:32
Have we debased our culture
to such an extent...
1:32:35
that a garbage man with a head
full of sick ideas...
1:32:38
is legitimately
referred to as a poet...
1:32:40
and where the filth he spews can be
accessed by a child at the computer?
1:32:46
Is this what we have come to?
Not the transmission of our...
1:32:50
highest ideals, but a cynical,
atheistic delirium?
1:32:53
In the past three days
we have been treated...
1:32:56
to the usual parade
of philistines...
1:32:58
the posturing, the preening,
the pomposity...
1:33:01
of the residual puritan element
of American culture...
1:33:04
that rears its ugly head every time
an artistic voice comes out.
1:33:09
I'm very attracted to what I feel is
a pungent and squalid element init.
1:33:14
That is the authentic thrashing
voice of American culture.
1:33:18
And, moreover, I find the kind
of imagery of rotten decay...
1:33:22
that is always symptomatic
of any fin-de-siécle.
1:33:26
In Rome, the Pope issued a message
of hope for believer sin their...
1:33:30
plight against what he termed
'the godless and lost.'
1:33:33
He did not mention
Simon Grim by name...
1:33:36
but offered a prayer for the young,
whom he described as sadly in...
1:33:40
need of faith, not the illusion of
conviction offered by rock music...
1:33:44
drugs, and
contemporary poetry.
1:33:46
Also in the news today: the
United Nations General Assembly...