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.
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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.
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lets do it together. Skate skiing is so much easier anywaytragabigzanda wrote:Update: it uses skate ski method, and I only know XC. I am so getting my ass kicked.
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I'm just really passionate about Cinema.
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Don't make fun of me, Burt
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Think I'm gonna buy a banjo.
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Bigotry is a strong base for ripping on the banjo. You'll crush it.
LoathedVermin72 wrote:soulseek 4 lyfe
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did you like the video I posted?
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The goat one? Absolutely.
LoathedVermin72 wrote:soulseek 4 lyfe
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Been watching a lot of videos on homemade mold making, toymaking and 3d printing. Think I'm gonna try it, but I don't know where I'm gonna find the space.
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Come to my house.BurtReynolds wrote:Been watching a lot of videos on homemade mold making, toymaking and 3d printing. Think I'm gonna try it, but I don't know where I'm gonna find the space.
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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How big is your garage?lennytheweedwhacker wrote:Come to my house.BurtReynolds wrote:Been watching a lot of videos on homemade mold making, toymaking and 3d printing. Think I'm gonna try it, but I don't know where I'm gonna find the space.
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Big afBurtReynolds wrote:How big is your garage?lennytheweedwhacker wrote:Come to my house.BurtReynolds wrote:Been watching a lot of videos on homemade mold making, toymaking and 3d printing. Think I'm gonna try it, but I don't know where I'm gonna find the space.
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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4 car?lennytheweedwhacker wrote:Big afBurtReynolds wrote:How big is your garage?lennytheweedwhacker wrote:Come to my house.BurtReynolds wrote:Been watching a lot of videos on homemade mold making, toymaking and 3d printing. Think I'm gonna try it, but I don't know where I'm gonna find the space.
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4 bikesBurtReynolds wrote:4 car?lennytheweedwhacker wrote:Big afBurtReynolds wrote:How big is your garage?lennytheweedwhacker wrote:Come to my house.BurtReynolds wrote:Been watching a lot of videos on homemade mold making, toymaking and 3d printing. Think I'm gonna try it, but I don't know where I'm gonna find the space.
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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I’ve really gotten good at making sausages. It takes up a lot of real estate in my kitchen but it’s worth it.
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