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.

E.H. Ruddock wrote:

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

When i come down there we’re gonna fight

tragabigzanda wrote:No offense Ruddo but RIP ruddo

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

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.

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

bodysnatcher wrote:All prescription medication commercials are awful, but whoever made these Jardiance commercials should be drawn and quartered.

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

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

spike wrote:nearly as loathsome as you wearing your hat backwards well into your 40s

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.

spike wrote:nearly as loathsome as you wearing your hat backwards well into your 40s

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...