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.

epilogue wrote:

wease wrote:

E.H. Ruddock wrote:

Chris_H_2 wrote:

Monkey_Driven wrote:

Chris_H_2 wrote:i have three more months left of my no-potato-chip 2024. god help me.

what's your favorite kind of chip?

i'm a boring lay's classic fan.

but i do like a brand called "utz" kettle chips.

if you put french onion dip in front of me, the whole bag of chips will be gone in a minute.

Utz Kettle chips are the best. If you can find their style called "Grandma Utz", those are the best.

Haven’t been able to find those. Plenty of Utz, tho.

Ruddo knows what's up

Chris_H_2 wrote:

epilogue wrote:

wease wrote:

E.H. Ruddock wrote:

Chris_H_2 wrote:

Monkey_Driven wrote:

Chris_H_2 wrote:i have three more months left of my no-potato-chip 2024. god help me.

what's your favorite kind of chip?

i'm a boring lay's classic fan.

but i do like a brand called "utz" kettle chips.

if you put french onion dip in front of me, the whole bag of chips will be gone in a minute.

Utz Kettle chips are the best. If you can find their style called "Grandma Utz", those are the best.

Haven’t been able to find those. Plenty of Utz, tho.

Ruddo knows what's up

hear that wease? you don't know what's up. but ruddo does.

epilogue wrote:

Chris_H_2 wrote:

epilogue wrote:

wease wrote:

E.H. Ruddock wrote:

Chris_H_2 wrote:

Monkey_Driven wrote:

Chris_H_2 wrote:i have three more months left of my no-potato-chip 2024. god help me.

what's your favorite kind of chip?

i'm a boring lay's classic fan.

but i do like a brand called "utz" kettle chips.

if you put french onion dip in front of me, the whole bag of chips will be gone in a minute.

Utz Kettle chips are the best. If you can find their style called "Grandma Utz", those are the best.

Haven’t been able to find those. Plenty of Utz, tho.

Ruddo knows what's up

hear that wease? you don't know what's up. but ruddo does.

You can't drive a wedge between me and wease, my king.

wease wrote:

epilogue wrote:

Chris_H_2 wrote:

epilogue wrote:

wease wrote:

E.H. Ruddock wrote:

Chris_H_2 wrote:

Monkey_Driven wrote:

Chris_H_2 wrote:i have three more months left of my no-potato-chip 2024. god help me.

what's your favorite kind of chip?

i'm a boring lay's classic fan.

but i do like a brand called "utz" kettle chips.

if you put french onion dip in front of me, the whole bag of chips will be gone in a minute.

Utz Kettle chips are the best. If you can find their style called "Grandma Utz", those are the best.

Haven’t been able to find those. Plenty of Utz, tho.

Ruddo knows what's up

hear that wease? you don't know what's up. but ruddo does.

You can't drive a wedge between me and wease, my king.

Damn right.

And i didn’t say I didn’t like them. I said I couldn’t find them.

doug rr wrote:

wease wrote:

epilogue wrote:

Chris_H_2 wrote:

epilogue wrote:

wease wrote:

E.H. Ruddock wrote:

Chris_H_2 wrote:

Monkey_Driven wrote:

Chris_H_2 wrote:i have three more months left of my no-potato-chip 2024. god help me.

what's your favorite kind of chip?

i'm a boring lay's classic fan.

but i do like a brand called "utz" kettle chips.

if you put french onion dip in front of me, the whole bag of chips will be gone in a minute.

Utz Kettle chips are the best. If you can find their style called "Grandma Utz", those are the best.

Haven’t been able to find those. Plenty of Utz, tho.

Ruddo knows what's up

hear that wease? you don't know what's up. but ruddo does.

You can't drive a wedge between me and wease, my king.

Damn right.

And i didn’t say I didn’t like them. I said I couldn’t find them.

this feud over potato chips reminds me a lot of the fights between Jim Leyland and Barry Bonds

blueviper wrote:Behind someone at a fast food restaurant who: 1) can't decide on what they want to eat 2) picks something but wants it extremely modified 3) asks for things that aren't available

blueviper wrote:Behind someone at a fast food restaurant who: 1) can't decide on what they want to eat 2) picks something but wants it extremely modified 3) asks for things that aren't available

lennytheweedwhacker wrote:When I’m browsing RM on my phone and accidentally click on the Star Wars subform when going for A&E

tommy wrote:

lennytheweedwhacker wrote:When I’m browsing RM on my phone and accidentally click on the Star Wars subform when going for A&E

Just use active topics

lennytheweedwhacker wrote:

tommy wrote:

lennytheweedwhacker wrote:When I’m browsing RM on my phone and accidentally click on the Star Wars subform when going for A&E

Just use active topics

I don’t want active topics. I don’t post based on recent activity

lennytheweedwhacker wrote:

tommy wrote:

lennytheweedwhacker wrote:When I’m browsing RM on my phone and accidentally click on the Star Wars subform when going for A&E

Just use active topics

I don’t want active topics. I don’t post based on recent activity