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[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.

[Bammer]

Try to keep up

[bodysnatcher]

I was off RM for about 3-4 weeks and there are lots of unread topics that I would generally read, but simply don’t feel like it or feel overwhelmed by them. Should I just mark the entire board as read and start over? Did I miss anything worthwhile?

[Jorge]

Mostly puns

[Jorge]

Sorry, you said worthwhile. The answer is no

[Happy Trees]

I was off RM for about 3-4 weeks and there are lots of unread topics that I would generally read, but simply don’t feel like it or feel overwhelmed by them. Should I just mark the entire board as read and start over? Did I miss anything worthwhile?

You missed the spritz.

[bodysnatcher]

I was off RM for about 3-4 weeks and there are lots of unread topics that I would generally read, but simply don’t feel like it or feel overwhelmed by them. Should I just mark the entire board as read and start over? Did I miss anything worthwhile?

You missed the spritz.

No I unfortunately read some of that which is why I asked if I should mark everything else as read

[Bammer]

Mostly puns

It’s true

[bodysnatcher]

Mostly puns

Ok I will now slog my way through every unread thread for the rest of the night until daybreak

[knee tunes]

[knee tunes]

I was off RM for about 3-4 weeks and there are lots of unread topics that I would generally read, but simply don’t feel like it or feel overwhelmed by them. Should I just mark the entire board as read and start over? Did I miss anything worthwhile?

You missed the spritz.

No I unfortunately read some of that which is why I asked if I should mark everything else as read

No you should spritz it

[dad]

why does my status keep changing?

[dad]

is it a halloween trick?

[B]

Looks the same to me.

[B]

I seem to remember setting that up, but I forget why.

[dad]

At the moment, it’s 10 Club Complaint Department.

Before this it was changing with every post.

[B]

There are, actually, several ranks that just appear for 1-5 posts. Just to see who notices.

[spike]

[dad]

it can be a bit jarring at times. it's not the most graceful recline.

[tree_]

gosh dang people can be so rude