Carl Sandburg wrote:There is a wolf in me . . . fangs pointed for tearing gashes . . . a red tongue for raw meat . . . and the hot lapping of blood—I keep this wolf because the wilderness gave it to me and the wilderness will not let it go.
There is a fox in me . . . a silver-gray fox . . . I sniff and guess . . . I pick things out of the wind and air . . . I nose in the dark night and take sleepers and eat them and hide the feathers . . . I circle and loop and double-cross.
There is a hog in me . . . a snout and a belly . . . a machinery for eating and grunting . . . a machinery for sleeping satisfied in the sun—I got this too from the wilderness and the wilderness will not let it go.
There is a fish in me . . . I know I came from salt-blue water-gates . . . I scurried with shoals of herring . . . I blew waterspouts with porpoises . . . before land was . . . before the water went down . . . before Noah . . . before the first chapter of Genesis.
There is a baboon in me . . . clambering-clawed . . . dog-faced . . . yawping a galoot's hunger . . . hairy under the armpits . . . here are the hawk-eyed hankering men . . . here are the blonde and blue-eyed women . . . here they hide curled asleep waiting . . . ready to snarl and kill . . . ready to sing and give milk . . . waiting—I keep the baboon because the wilderness says so.
There is an eagle in me and a mockingbird . . . and the eagle flies among the Rocky Mountains of my dreams and fights among the Sierra crags of what I want . . . and the mockingbird warbles in the early forenoon before the dew is gone, warbles in the underbrush of my Chattanoogas of hope, gushes over the blue Ozark foothills of my wishes—And I got the eagle and the mockingbird from the wilderness.
O, I got a zoo, I got a menagerie, inside my ribs, under my bony head, under my red-valve heart—and I got something else: it is a man-child heart, a woman-child heart: it is a father and mother and lover: it came from God-Knows-Where: it is going to God-Knows-Where—For I am the keeper of the zoo: I say yes and no: I sing and kill and work: I am a pal of the world: I came from the wilderness.
Talk about your day thread
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Jorge wrote:I'm in Panama again

96583UP wrote:i recently bought travel-size packets of metamucil
now when i regular i can promote regularity
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Who even thinks of Panama these days
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96583UP wrote:i recently bought travel-size packets of metamucil
now when i regular i can promote regularity
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I accidentally shaved half my eyebrow off this morning
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pics or it didn't happenbodysnatcher wrote:I accidentally shaved half my eyebrow off this morning
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Panama City?Jorge wrote:I'm in Panama again
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Animal Citytree_ wrote:Panama City?Jorge wrote:I'm in Panama again
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Panama rules. Bocas del toro is breathtaking.
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Why were you shaving so high up?bodysnatcher wrote:I accidentally shaved half my eyebrow off this morning
"I really enjoy sandwiches but the other guys are so good at making sandwiches that I don't make them. Now I make sandwiches."
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Rangi Guy wrote:Why were you shaving so high up?bodysnatcher wrote:I accidentally shaved half my eyebrow off this morning
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Fair callbodysnatcher wrote:Rangi Guy wrote:Why were you shaving so high up?bodysnatcher wrote:I accidentally shaved half my eyebrow off this morning
"I really enjoy sandwiches but the other guys are so good at making sandwiches that I don't make them. Now I make sandwiches."
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plumber is gone..all is good
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Huzzah!doug rr wrote:plumber is gone..all is good
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What was the issue?doug rr wrote:plumber is gone..all is good
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My guess is the plumbingbodysnatcher wrote:What was the issue?doug rr wrote:plumber is gone..all is good
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Ruddo and doug’s plumbing both get cleared on the same day. It’s a Rmiracle!
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they just snaked it..i think some sediment or somethingbodysnatcher wrote:What was the issue?doug rr wrote:plumber is gone..all is good
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ALspike wrote:My guess is the plumbingbodysnatcher wrote:What was the issue?doug rr wrote:plumber is gone..all is good