Red Mosquito

tragabigzanda wrote:

bodysnatcher wrote:Also hate it when white people bow to express gratitude

Even the Japanese?

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.

Jorge 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 get it. It doesn't bother me but you're not toxic for finding something annoying

Ms Harmless wrote:you say that every time I'm on a page

Ms Harmless wrote:seemed a harmless little cuck

Bammer wrote:

Ms Harmless wrote:you say that every time I'm on a page

Easy there, fellow The 1975 fan.

epilogue wrote:

Ms Harmless wrote:seemed a harmless little cuck

Didn't want this post to go unnoticed.

Ms Harmless wrote:

epilogue wrote:

Ms Harmless wrote:seemed a harmless little cuck

Didn't want this post to go unnoticed.

it's so off-brand for me, I think I momentarily channelled someone else's RM shtick

Spoiler: show

Oh snap!

epilogue wrote:

Jorge 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 get it. It doesn't bother me but you're not toxic for finding something annoying

Literally no one said he was toxic for finding it annoying.

Ms Harmless wrote:

epilogue wrote:

Ms Harmless wrote:seemed a harmless little cuck

Didn't want this post to go unnoticed.

it's so off-brand for me, I think I momentarily channelled someone else's RM shtick

Jorge wrote:

epilogue wrote:

Jorge 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 get it. It doesn't bother me but you're not toxic for finding something annoying

Literally no one said he was toxic for finding it annoying.

Good because that would be an insane thing to say, or vaguely insinuate

Monkey_Driven wrote:On a related noted, I've seen a lot of "humxn" and "freshmxn" being used at work lately. Is that becoming a widespread thing or is it mostly on college campuses and in LGTBQA communities?

Monkey_Driven wrote:On a related noted, I've seen a lot of "humxn" and "freshmxn" being used at work lately. Is that becoming a widespread thing or is it mostly on college campuses and in LGTBQA communities?

epilogue wrote:

Monkey_Driven wrote:On a related noted, I've seen a lot of "humxn" and "freshmxn" being used at work lately. Is that becoming a widespread thing or is it mostly on college campuses and in LGTBQA communities?

I haven't encountered it anywhere outside of activist internet.