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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I thought all uncles are white supremacists.lennytheweedwhacker wrote:wtf
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Hey I’m an uncle.Chris_H_2 wrote:I thought all uncles are white supremacists.lennytheweedwhacker wrote:wtf
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I shook hands and hugged a number of Canadians last week while I was therelennytheweedwhacker wrote:When was the last time you touched an ethnic, Doug?
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3 different places today and bought no furniture...she bought a vase and a bowl...we didn't stop for oysters but picked up shrimp at the store to make a curry tonight
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Does not count.doug rr wrote:I shook hands and hugged a number of Canadians last week while I was therelennytheweedwhacker wrote:When was the last time you touched an ethnic, Doug?
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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Of course my drill dies in the middle of a job.
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this is why you pay people to do thingsspike wrote:Of course my drill dies in the middle of a job.
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It’s such an easy job. Hoping she’s charged up before it gets too dark, otherwise I’ll have to push it til early next week.doug rr wrote:this is why you pay people to do thingsspike wrote:Of course my drill dies in the middle of a job.
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got yourself a ryobi or dewalt? Milwaukee maybe?spike wrote:It’s such an easy job. Hoping she’s charged up before it gets too dark, otherwise I’ll have to push it til early next week.doug rr wrote:this is why you pay people to do thingsspike wrote:Of course my drill dies in the middle of a job.
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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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Ryobi… but hey, I improvised and used some of the existing hardware to mount the new hardware, so no drilling needed. Magnetic front gate stopper installed as the sun sets over Chicago.doug rr wrote:got yourself a ryobi or dewalt? Milwaukee maybe?spike wrote:It’s such an easy job. Hoping she’s charged up before it gets too dark, otherwise I’ll have to push it til early next week.doug rr wrote:this is why you pay people to do thingsspike wrote:Of course my drill dies in the middle of a job.
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A Hitachi drill wouldn't have died on you, m8.
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Ryobi is the Great Value brand of power tools.
Let me tell you, Homer Simpson is cock of nothing!
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I have fully hitched my horse to the ryobi one range of battery operated tools. I just mowed my lawn with my ryobi battery operated mower (and imagined I was on spike's ride on ryobi battery operated mower as I did).wease wrote:Ryobi is the Great Value brand of power tools.
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About to have my first ever BRAIN MRI
Attempting to decipher the secret of why my brain is so special and good
Attempting to decipher the secret of why my brain is so special and good
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I was just busting his balls…Higgs wrote:I have fully hitched my horse to the ryobi one range of battery operated tools. I just mowed my lawn with my ryobi battery operated mower (and imagined I was on spike's ride on ryobi battery operated mower as I did).wease wrote:Ryobi is the Great Value brand of power tools.
Let me tell you, Homer Simpson is cock of nothing!
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But for real, what's the reason? U ok big J?Jorge wrote:About to have my first ever BRAIN MRI
Attempting to decipher the secret of why my brain is so special and good
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please don’t die, Jorge
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