Red Mosquito

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.

doug rr wrote:let me know what Paris is like now...we go there in 3 weeks for 10 days...should be plenty of protests still going on

VinylGuy wrote:Im planning a trip to Colombia in february, first time there. Exited, its the one country in SA i never been.

Also, Mexico should happen in april but for work reasons.

Jorge wrote: If you are going to be in Colombia during February it is good to spend a couple of days at the Barranquilla carnival, which is really a lot of fun. It is the only time of year that is worth visiting Barranquilla. I have a small penis.

Jorge wrote:

VinylGuy wrote:Im planning a trip to Colombia in february, first time there. Exited, its the one country in SA i never been.

Also, Mexico should happen in april but for work reasons.

Si vas a estar en Colombia durante febrero está bueno pasar un par de días en el carnaval de Barranquilla, que es realmente muy divertido. Es la única época del año que vale la pena visitar Barranquilla

doug rr wrote:have to go to Portland for the weekend...36 hours tops..

VinylGuy wrote:

Jorge wrote:

VinylGuy wrote:Im planning a trip to Colombia in february, first time there. Exited, its the one country in SA i never been.

Also, Mexico should happen in april but for work reasons.

Si vas a estar en Colombia durante febrero está bueno pasar un par de días en el carnaval de Barranquilla, que es realmente muy divertido. Es la única época del año que vale la pena visitar Barranquilla

buen dato, no es lindo barranquilla?

Jorge wrote:

VinylGuy wrote:

Jorge wrote:

VinylGuy wrote:Im planning a trip to Colombia in february, first time there. Exited, its the one country in SA i never been.

Also, Mexico should happen in april but for work reasons.

Si vas a estar en Colombia durante febrero está bueno pasar un par de días en el carnaval de Barranquilla, que es realmente muy divertido. Es la única época del año que vale la pena visitar Barranquilla

buen dato, no es lindo barranquilla?

Tiene cosas muy lindas, a mí me encanta por motivos nostálgicos, pero hace muuucho calor y no hay realmente nada que no se pueda encontrar en otras ciudades similares... salvo el carnaval. El carnaval está buenísimo. La ciudad entera se prende

doug rr wrote:have to go to Portland for the weekend...36 hours tops..

The Argonaut wrote:

doug rr wrote:have to go to Portland for the weekend...36 hours tops..

I'm pretty sure a sketchy started following me when I was in Portland a few years ago. I had to jog like two blocks to get away. Watch out for him!
Also, I got lots of compliments on my cardigan. Maybe wear a cardigan if you want to make friends

dad wrote:

doug rr wrote:have to go to Portland for the weekend...36 hours tops..

https://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/13/trav ... tland.html