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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I didn’t drown the damn fox!
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Very telling!tragabigzanda wrote:spike's penchant for wild animal suffering continues!
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does this make you wanna rawk?
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is that a STP cover?
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spike wrote:is that a STP cover?
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Fuck yeahhhhh. Man this makes Dark Matter sound like it was made by a bunch of pillsbury dough boys
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why do oranges continue to exist in a world where easily peelable tangerines/satsumas exist? they are objectively inferior and outdated.
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the juice loosener cant get all that juice out of one bag of tangerines
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need valencias
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you can buy citrus fruit at subway?BurtReynolds wrote:why do oranges continue to exist in a world where easily peelable tangerines/satsumas exist? they are objectively inferior and outdated.
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Do you think a nudist colony has ever been started by a group of people who were simply tired of doing laundry?
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I like doing laundry and folding..its the dishwasher that gives me headachesbodysnatcher wrote:Do you think a nudist colony has ever been started by a group of people who were simply tired of doing laundry?
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its pretty easy to peel panko crust off a chicken tender too..spike wrote:you can buy citrus fruit at subway?BurtReynolds wrote:why do oranges continue to exist in a world where easily peelable tangerines/satsumas exist? they are objectively inferior and outdated.
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RM: Would you never listen to Pearl Jam or Pearl Jam Pearl Jam to listen to?
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Please tell me Sloppy wasn't banned. I don't think I can handle the loss of any more friends right now.
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Is it ok to put a dead animal in a compost bin? I’ve read conflicting reports.
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