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.

lennytheweedwhacker wrote:

Coach wrote:Lenny, what year did you join the board?

2004ish.

Jorge wrote:Len is like the only RMer that every single other RMer likes. It's remarkable

Coach wrote:

lennytheweedwhacker wrote:

Coach wrote:Lenny, what year did you join the board?

2004ish.

ok same as me. you were relatively young to join then.

doug rr wrote:and look how far you've come..you have a house and job and slice golf balls

lennytheweedwhacker wrote:

doug rr wrote:and look how far you've come..you have a house and job and slice golf balls

Last time I chunked everything badly instead of slicing. That may be worse.

doug rr wrote:

lennytheweedwhacker wrote:

doug rr wrote:and look how far you've come..you have a house and job and slice golf balls

Last time I chunked everything badly instead of slicing. That may be worse.

yeah, chunking sucks..lets watch golf today

lennytheweedwhacker wrote:

Coach wrote:

lennytheweedwhacker wrote:

Coach wrote:Lenny, what year did you join the board?

2004ish.

ok same as me. you were relatively young to join then.

Yeah I was in college. Had too much time to kill and few friends. If I recall correctly I started just before whichever iteration of the board closed down.

Coach wrote:

lennytheweedwhacker wrote:

Coach wrote:

lennytheweedwhacker wrote:

Coach wrote:Lenny, what year did you join the board?

2004ish.

ok same as me. you were relatively young to join then.

Yeah I was in college. Had too much time to kill and few friends. If I recall correctly I started just before whichever iteration of the board closed down.

Yes, the first board I was on was the pre-2004 one. There was a whole big controversy about post counts and what would carry over....I think. It was a long time ago.

lennytheweedwhacker wrote:

Coach wrote:

lennytheweedwhacker wrote:

Coach wrote:

lennytheweedwhacker wrote:

Coach wrote:Lenny, what year did you join the board?

2004ish.

ok same as me. you were relatively young to join then.

Yeah I was in college. Had too much time to kill and few friends. If I recall correctly I started just before whichever iteration of the board closed down.

Yes, the first board I was on was the pre-2004 one. There was a whole big controversy about post counts and what would carry over....I think. It was a long time ago.

Did you hate Balki?

Coach wrote:

lennytheweedwhacker wrote:

Coach wrote:

lennytheweedwhacker wrote:

Coach wrote:

lennytheweedwhacker wrote:

Coach wrote:Lenny, what year did you join the board?

2004ish.

ok same as me. you were relatively young to join then.

Yeah I was in college. Had too much time to kill and few friends. If I recall correctly I started just before whichever iteration of the board closed down.

Yes, the first board I was on was the pre-2004 one. There was a whole big controversy about post counts and what would carry over....I think. It was a long time ago.

Did you hate Balki?

I know and remember who he is, but never had a problem, but the key to my longevity has been to not really get into it with people on here.

The one guy who actually really pissed me off was Styrofoam Chicken. Not sure if you remember him?

Coach wrote:Remember Woodburn?

lennytheweedwhacker wrote:

Coach wrote:Remember Woodburn?

Oh yes. I had an ongoing AIM group with him and jacktor. They later banged.

Ello Sailor wrote:Styrofoam Chicken hated Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness. That's all I remember about that dingus.

Ello Sailor wrote:Maybe if he hates Grimes.