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.

E.H. Ruddock wrote:Please stop

Mickey wrote:Why does Mac continue to post here, when he seems to hold almost everyone on the board in contempt?

Mickey wrote:Why does Mac continue to post here, when he seems to hold almost everyone on the board in contempt?

macphisto wrote:I often see regular looking dudes with fat orca wives and think to myself, “Man, he must hate his life.” Are any of you in that situation? Do you hate your life?

wease wrote:

macphisto wrote:I often see regular looking dudes with fat orca wives and think to myself, “Man, he must hate his life.” Are any of you in that situation? Do you hate your life?

“Fat orca wives?” Jesus what a piece of shit you are.

epilogue wrote:

macphisto wrote:Found one.

Last chance

wease wrote:

macphisto wrote:I often see regular looking dudes with fat orca wives and think to myself, “Man, he must hate his life.” Are any of you in that situation? Do you hate your life?

“Fat orca wives?” Jesus what a piece of shit you are.

tree_ wrote:It's one of those things where, he knows his heart is in the right place, but he uses key words or phrases that rub you the wrong way. And even though you're his friends, you judge him harshly. If you see through the mechanisms at play, he's just your friend goofing off cause he's bored. Goof off with him, give it a try, give him a hug and enjoy your Friday.

verb_to_trust wrote:

macphisto wrote:I often see regular looking dudes with fat orca wives and think to myself, “Man, he must hate his life.” Are any of you in that situation? Do you hate your life?

I see stuff like this and think: I could not get hard for that. My wife works out. She knows..

macphisto wrote:

verb_to_trust wrote:

macphisto wrote:I often see regular looking dudes with fat orca wives and think to myself, “Man, he must hate his life.” Are any of you in that situation? Do you hate your life?

I see stuff like this and think: I could not get hard for that. My wife works out. She knows..

What prompted my initial, highly insensitive post was seeing such a couple while looking at giant tortoises on vacation, and I just thought, “I would be mortified to be in public with her.” I felt bad for the guy. Sex would be completely out of the question.