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.

doug rr wrote:smoke detectors..I was making meatballs on medium heat with the patio door open and it went off..no smoke, nothing..grab a ladder get up to unhook it and it just kept going..I might just leave them and live dangerously

spike wrote:

doug rr wrote:smoke detectors..I was making meatballs on medium heat with the patio door open and it went off..no smoke, nothing..grab a ladder get up to unhook it and it just kept going..I might just leave them and live dangerously

Sounds like they’re hardwired with a battery backup.

BurtReynolds wrote:

spike wrote:

doug rr wrote:smoke detectors..I was making meatballs on medium heat with the patio door open and it went off..no smoke, nothing..grab a ladder get up to unhook it and it just kept going..I might just leave them and live dangerously

Sounds like they’re hardwired with a battery backup.

I had to throw mine in my car to wait for the fucking battery to die. I hate them so much.

doug rr wrote:

BurtReynolds wrote:

spike wrote:

doug rr wrote:smoke detectors..I was making meatballs on medium heat with the patio door open and it went off..no smoke, nothing..grab a ladder get up to unhook it and it just kept going..I might just leave them and live dangerously

Sounds like they’re hardwired with a battery backup.

I had to throw mine in my car to wait for the fucking battery to die. I hate them so much.

a corvette with a smoke alarm going off at an apartment complex? when can I move in

BurtReynolds wrote:

doug rr wrote:

BurtReynolds wrote:

spike wrote:

doug rr wrote:smoke detectors..I was making meatballs on medium heat with the patio door open and it went off..no smoke, nothing..grab a ladder get up to unhook it and it just kept going..I might just leave them and live dangerously

Sounds like they’re hardwired with a battery backup.

I had to throw mine in my car to wait for the fucking battery to die. I hate them so much.

a corvette with a smoke alarm going off at an apartment complex? when can I move in

It was a Buick at the time. I wouldn't sully the Vette like that.

BurtReynolds wrote:2017 LaCrosse. It was an old man car, but my god was it a comfortable ride.

doug rr wrote:

BurtReynolds wrote:2017 LaCrosse. It was an old man car, but my god was it a comfortable ride.

you should rent one and take ello for a ride, grab some some sandwiches and talk things out

BurtReynolds wrote:

doug rr wrote:

BurtReynolds wrote:2017 LaCrosse. It was an old man car, but my god was it a comfortable ride.

you should rent one and take ello for a ride, grab some some sandwiches and talk things out

I don't even know where he lives. I know nothing about him!

Higgs wrote:What is she meant to do with the napkin?

doug rr wrote:

BurtReynolds wrote:

doug rr wrote:

BurtReynolds wrote:2017 LaCrosse. It was an old man car, but my god was it a comfortable ride.

you should rent one and take ello for a ride, grab some some sandwiches and talk things out

I don't even know where he lives. I know nothing about him!

wherever he is I think its winter now...make sure you have the right tires..reach out to him