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.
New signs of decadence
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BurtReynolds wrote:Bought a fifty dollar fountain pen for my cursive writing today. Hope it's good.
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Don't confuse class with decadence.spike wrote:BurtReynolds wrote:Bought a fifty dollar fountain pen for my cursive writing today. Hope it's good.
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My hero is baby Scurry.
And they say that a hero could save us
I'm not gonna stand here and wait
I'm not gonna stand here and wait
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everything people with no kids spend money on
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you need a real world hero! you need a role model!
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It is youBurtReynolds wrote:you need a real world hero! you need a role model!lennytheweedwhacker wrote:My hero is baby Scurry.
And they say that a hero could save us
I'm not gonna stand here and wait
I'm not gonna stand here and wait
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A decadent is hhhhheeeEEEERRRRRREEE96583UP wrote:everything people with no kids spend money on
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I just ordered an air fryer to be delivered to my home from a Best Buy that’s five minutes away.
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go off, fry king.spike wrote:I just ordered an air fryer to be delivered to my home from a Best Buy that’s five minutes away.
96583UP wrote:i recently bought travel-size packets of metamucil
now when i regular i can promote regularity
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It’s a birthday present for my mom.dad wrote:go off, fry king.spike wrote:I just ordered an air fryer to be delivered to my home from a Best Buy that’s five minutes away.
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take it to the how precious are you thread, pal.spike wrote:It’s a birthday present for my mom.dad wrote:go off, fry king.spike wrote:I just ordered an air fryer to be delivered to my home from a Best Buy that’s five minutes away.
96583UP wrote:i recently bought travel-size packets of metamucil
now when i regular i can promote regularity
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bad taste is ne-verbodysnatcher wrote:A decadent is hhhhheeeEEEERRRRRREEE96583UP wrote:everything people with no kids spend money on
the safe-est spends
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dimejinky99 wrote:I could destroy any ai chatbot you put in front of me. Easily.
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Wondering if Vanessa Bryant’s $600M net worth was calculated before or after the $16M she was just awarded for the crash site photos.
Either way very happy for her I’m sure that money will help.
Either way very happy for her I’m sure that money will help.
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You can get a pair of socks with your own dog’s face on them
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