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.

96583UP wrote:my camellias are showing healthy new growth

BurtReynolds wrote:

96583UP wrote:my camellias are showing healthy new growth

I should buy some flower pots.

Dev wrote:

BurtReynolds wrote:

96583UP wrote:my camellias are showing healthy new growth

I should buy some flower pots.

pls just be yourself.

this is so embarrassing.

you're gonna start growing flowers?

what are you talking about?

it's like you're back at the corporate water cooler trying to make friends when you should be committing time theft and taking extended smoke breaks in the back.

that's the difference between me and you.

I would never go corporate.

Dev wrote:
you're gonna start growing flowers?

Dev wrote:

it's like you're back at the corporate water cooler trying to make friends when you should be committing time theft and taking extended smoke breaks in the back.

that's the difference between me and you.

I would never go corporate.

BurtReynolds wrote:I thought I could be happy committing time theft and generally faking work, but after three years, my fake internet job wasn't very fulfilling.

96583UP wrote:

Dev wrote:

BurtReynolds wrote:

96583UP wrote:my camellias are showing healthy new growth

I should buy some flower pots.

pls just be yourself.

this is so embarrassing.

you're gonna start growing flowers?

what are you talking about?

it's like you're back at the corporate water cooler trying to make friends when you should be committing time theft and taking extended smoke breaks in the back.

that's the difference between me and you.

I would never go corporate.

you should stop insulting people in every thread

96583UP wrote:you're like a donald trump chatbot

BurtReynolds wrote:Personal attacks is all these people know, numbers! They hate positivity because they are haters, they hate self respect because they hate themselves and can't stand to see others be successful, they hate America because America rules their tiny little vassal states! They smoke weed to dull their already dull minds because they can't handle the realities of the world.

Many such cases! Very sad!