Red Mosquito

bodysnatcher wrote:Manage what? Talking like a normal person?

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.

epilogue wrote:

bodysnatcher wrote:Manage what? Talking like a normal person?

Manage making it through one whole day

tragabigzanda wrote:I’m literally talking with my therapist for the last three weeks about how grueling it is

bodysnatcher wrote:

epilogue wrote:

bodysnatcher wrote:Manage what? Talking like a normal person?

Manage making it through one whole day

I work from home and can go days without hearing my own voice. That helps.

And bourbon.

epilogue wrote:

bodysnatcher wrote:When someone refers to another person as “human”

“She is just an amazing human.”
“Happy birthday to my favorite human.”

tragabigzanda wrote:preach

How do you guys even manage

Ms Harmless wrote:

epilogue wrote:

bodysnatcher wrote:When someone refers to another person as “human”

“She is just an amazing human.”
“Happy birthday to my favorite human.”

tragabigzanda wrote:preach

How do you guys even manage

I have two nonbinary partners so I like "my human"

VinylGuy wrote:did you have those chats with the Shitty Taste Gang who hated Scorsese´s movies?

bodysnatcher wrote:Sorry team I didn’t mean that I hate the use of “human” over “man” or “woman”. I meant it as a replacement for “person”. Just say “person”!

epilogue wrote:

Ms Harmless wrote:

epilogue wrote:

bodysnatcher wrote:When someone refers to another person as “human”

“She is just an amazing human.”
“Happy birthday to my favorite human.”

tragabigzanda wrote:preach

How do you guys even manage

I have two nonbinary partners so I like "my human"

I'm a very lame, straight, cis, white dude in a very happy hetero-normative marriage and I really like "my human" also.

In fact, I've been having a lot of conversations (offline) recently about language and slang. And the most common rejoinder in those talks is: "yeah, your message board is super toxic."

Not sure what to make of that.

bodysnatcher wrote:Sorry team I didn’t mean that I hate the use of “human” over “man” or “woman”. I meant it as a replacement for “person”. Just say “person”!

Ms Harmless wrote:

bodysnatcher wrote:Sorry team I didn’t mean that I hate the use of “human” over “man” or “woman”. I meant it as a replacement for “person”. Just say “person”!

I use "person" as well sometimes

epilogue wrote:

Ms Harmless wrote:

bodysnatcher wrote:Sorry team I didn’t mean that I hate the use of “human” over “man” or “woman”. I meant it as a replacement for “person”. Just say “person”!

I use "person" as well sometimes

Me too!