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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now when i regular i can promote regularity
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Let me tell you, Homer Simpson is cock of nothing!
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I had to clean up one of these shits by our dog about 2 weeks ago. It was so gross I literally couldn't talk to anyone about it as to describe it would mean having to re-live it which in turn would make me literally dry reach. Its only now, 2 full weeks later, that I have recovered enough to be able to even mention it.wease wrote:Our Eddie like to kill his squeak toys and actually eat the plastic. Sometimes we find piles of just nasty gel-like poo. More than likely from some piece of a toy. That happens for a day or so then his poos are back to normal.
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But how did it smell?
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Your efforts lately are such a shame because, really, you used to be so good at this.spike wrote:In My Sneeze
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No idea. Held my breath with mouth hard shut the entire horrible time. The goopy shit slopped everywhere though and made it very difficult to pick up. A high pressure hose was involved in the final clean up.LetMeSleep wrote:But how did it smell?
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never meet your heroes, bammerBammer wrote:Your efforts lately are such a shame because, really, you used to be so good at this.spike wrote:In My Sneeze
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spike wrote:never meet your heroes, bammerBammer wrote:Your efforts lately are such a shame because, really, you used to be so good at this.spike wrote:In My Sneeze
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96583UP wrote:i recently bought travel-size packets of metamucil
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I build ‘em up too high just to watch ‘em fall downspike wrote:never meet your heroes, bammerBammer wrote:Your efforts lately are such a shame because, really, you used to be so good at this.spike wrote:In My Sneeze
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I can’t believe it’s Thursday already. I’m busier than a one armed bandit in Las Vegas and I can’t seem whittle things down.
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Probably hard to get a lot of work done with only one armpepperwhiteMFC wrote:I can’t believe it’s Thursday already. I’m busier than a one armed bandit in Las Vegas and I can’t seem whittle things down.
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Yeah try untying itbodysnatcher wrote:Probably hard to get a lot of work done with only one armpepperwhiteMFC wrote:I can’t believe it’s Thursday already. I’m busier than a one armed bandit in Las Vegas and I can’t seem whittle things down.
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How do cops handcuff a one armed person? To a belt loop or something?spike wrote:Yeah try untying itbodysnatcher wrote:Probably hard to get a lot of work done with only one armpepperwhiteMFC wrote:I can’t believe it’s Thursday already. I’m busier than a one armed bandit in Las Vegas and I can’t seem whittle things down.
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They are above the lawbodysnatcher wrote:How do cops handcuff a one armed person? To a belt loop or something?spike wrote:Yeah try untying itbodysnatcher wrote:Probably hard to get a lot of work done with only one armpepperwhiteMFC wrote:I can’t believe it’s Thursday already. I’m busier than a one armed bandit in Las Vegas and I can’t seem whittle things down.
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