Red Mosquito

E.H. Ruddock wrote:When someone says "it does that thing where" and then proceeds to tell me what it does. For example:

"they do that thing where they release half of the items and delay the other half to get better results"

Just tell me they release half of the items and delay the other half to get better results.

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.

tragabigzanda wrote:ruddo's doing that thing where he acts like he's better than us

tragabigzanda wrote:ruddo's doing that thing where he acts like he's better than us

Ello Sailor wrote:Ruddo is way better than me. You, too.

Ello Sailor wrote:Ruddo is way better than me. You, too.

Ms Harmless wrote:people who knock on my door then leave after like 5 seconds

I'm in a wheelchair, motherfucker, give me TIME

tommy wrote:Ruddo is da man

tree_ wrote:

E.H. Ruddock wrote:When someone says "it does that thing where" and then proceeds to tell me what it does. For example:

"they do that thing where they release half of the items and delay the other half to get better results"

Just tell me they release half of the items and delay the other half to get better results.

i'm one of those people who does that thing where I say that sometimes

i like how it feels to say it

Bammer wrote:

tommy wrote:Ruddo is da man

If that’s how you consider someone with over 44k posts on RM even after GD was purged … uh, ok.