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La Jolla lifeguard box

Block-letter poetry on a bronze-green box overlooking La Jolla Cove.

For the benefit of Googlers, perhaps, here's a fragment of the text.

               TRANQUILITY
                BOOMER
FRESH DEEP SOUL PURITY
         SPRAY GENTLE BREEZE  
     WAVES BREEZE REEFS
    SPIRITUAL HEALING 
     BODY SURF RESPECT ROCK
   WORMS FINS ENDLESS
   PELICANS UNPREDICTABLE
        FRIENDS RIPTIDE
      A FREE SPIRIT PALM TREE
     ADRENALINE RUSH   
  FUN EEL GRASS MAGIC
     ETERNAL CALM PICNIC 
         BOOMER CAMARADERIE
    BUNGALOWS YIN YANG
      CHANGES COMMUNITY

Lots of mysteries around this box. What do lifeguards keep locked up in a small metal box on a post? Spare speedos? And why the elaborate yet primitive ornamentation? Is it all just a defense against graffiti?

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