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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.
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E.H. Ruddock wrote:
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tragabigzanda wrote:Vehicular turn signals that are anything other than the standard issue blinker can go straight to hell
I just don't use the blinker at all - why the hell should I let the rando behind me know where I'm going? None of thier business
When i come down there we’re gonna fight
Yeah - only if you can work out where I'm going
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:lol:
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tragabigzanda wrote:No offense Ruddo but RIP ruddo
Nah, Rangi is team Valor, I'm Mystic, I can defeat him easily
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E.H. Ruddock wrote:
tragabigzanda wrote:No offense Ruddo but RIP ruddo
Nah, Rangi is team Valor, I'm Mystic, I can defeat him easily
what is going on here? has the old punkdavid account been resurrected?
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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.
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Rangi Guy wrote:
tragabigzanda wrote:Vehicular turn signals that are anything other than the standard issue blinker can go straight to hell
I just don't use the blinker at all - why the hell should I let the rando behind me know where I'm going? None of thier business
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Downtown Nashville. It’s just gotten so fucking bad.
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All prescription medication commercials are awful, but whoever made these Jardiance commercials should be drawn and quartered.
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bodysnatcher wrote:All prescription medication commercials are awful, but whoever made these Jardiance commercials should be drawn and quartered.
Are those the ones with the people singing and dancing
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E.H. Ruddock wrote:
bodysnatcher wrote:All prescription medication commercials are awful, but whoever made these Jardiance commercials should be drawn and quartered.
Are those the ones with the people singing and dancing
Yeah
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bodysnatcher wrote:
E.H. Ruddock wrote:
bodysnatcher wrote:All prescription medication commercials are awful, but whoever made these Jardiance commercials should be drawn and quartered.
Are those the ones with the people singing and dancing
Yeah
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People don’t even think of leaving the house in any kind of western wear whatsoever and then the Chris Stapleton tour comes around, all of a sudden their entire wardrobe is cowboy boots, leather tassles, and 10 gallon hats.

Fkn Halloween in July give me a break.
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nearly as loathsome as you wearing your hat backwards well into your 40s
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spike wrote:nearly as loathsome as you wearing your hat backwards well into your 40s
I’ve (literally) turned that around … can’t point to when exactly but it’s been a little while.
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Bammer wrote:
spike wrote:nearly as loathsome as you wearing your hat backwards well into your 40s
I’ve (literally) turned that around … can’t point to when exactly but it’s been a little while.
probably when you were served divorce papers
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spike wrote:nearly as loathsome as you wearing your hat backwards well into your 40s
Hey - I still wear my cap backwards mostly...
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Spike already disrespecting the native customs.
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Rangi Guy wrote:
spike wrote:nearly as loathsome as you wearing your hat backwards well into your 40s
Hey - I still wear my cap backwards mostly...
It’s different when Aussies do it.
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Joey and trag wear fedoras
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