Ask RM a Question

[BurtReynolds]

I like it.

[tree_]

looks like jorge

[tragabigzanda]

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.

[dad]

or this...

[spike]

I need a new flag for my flagpole. It will be viewable for all on the water to see.

Please submit suggestions here.

can i buy that on amazon?

[spike]

or this...

i proposed this milwaukee flag (i'm from there), but the wife said people will think it's ukraine. there will be no virtue signaling here.

[tree_]

that is a great flag for a boat

[BurtReynolds]

That is a nice flag

[tree_]

let's try to narrow down your style a bit. think of this as like an eye vision test
which more appeals to you?

A.


B.

[Bammer]

I ran a topic search for Ask RM. This is not my failure.

Try and keep up

[spike]

let's try to narrow down your style a bit. think of this as like an eye vision test
which more appeals to you?

A.


B.

[spike]

I ran a topic search for Ask RM. This is not my failure.

Try and keep up

I’m not going to scour every page of new GD threads.

[epilogue]

Ask RM is a better title.

We should probably lock this thread and use the other one.

[spike]

We should do it for the Bammer hissy fit alone.

[epilogue]

I'm so tempted. He already hates me... it's almost too perfect...

[Bammer]

[Jorge]

Who remembers the official RM flag?

[tree_]

I recall hearing about it

[Jorge]

This is what we decided on:

[washing machine]

Walk me through the symbolism here?