Red Mosquito

wease wrote:Setting in our dining room, working from home. Had sinus stuff/cough going on since return from Florida. Get an itch in my nose so I scratch and start digging around. Pull out a small nugget and as I do I see the bug lady spraying right outside the window looking in at me.

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.

wease wrote:Setting in our dining room, working from home. Had sinus stuff/cough going on since return from Florida. Get an itch in my nose so I scratch and start digging around. Pull out a small nugget and as I do I see the bug lady spraying right outside the window looking in at me.

bodysnatcher wrote:

wease wrote:Setting in our dining room, working from home. Had sinus stuff/cough going on since return from Florida. Get an itch in my nose so I scratch and start digging around. Pull out a small nugget and as I do I see the bug lady spraying right outside the window looking in at me.

I skimmed that way too fast and read that you pulled a lady bug out of your nose

tree_ wrote:I just sorta randomly decided I'm going to refer to my mother as "mommy" from now on, both in her presence and not.

spike wrote:

tree_ wrote:I just sorta randomly decided I'm going to refer to my mother as "mommy" from now on, both in her presence and not.

Please don’t do this.

tree_ wrote:

spike wrote:

tree_ wrote:I just sorta randomly decided I'm going to refer to my mother as "mommy" from now on, both in her presence and not.

Please don’t do this.

why not

dad wrote:

tree_ wrote:

spike wrote:

tree_ wrote:I just sorta randomly decided I'm going to refer to my mother as "mommy" from now on, both in her presence and not.

Please don’t do this.

why not

don't listen to him, tree.

spike wrote:

dad wrote:

tree_ wrote:

spike wrote:

tree_ wrote:I just sorta randomly decided I'm going to refer to my mother as "mommy" from now on, both in her presence and not.

Please don’t do this.

why not

don't listen to him, tree.

Listen to me.

bodysnatcher wrote:Do it. In public.

Bammer wrote:

bodysnatcher wrote:Do it. In public.

On video.

E.H. Ruddock wrote:I don’t think I’ve gone to a bank since 1996

96583UP wrote:i need to eat more vegetables

doug rr wrote:

96583UP wrote:i need to eat more vegetables

I think ive had 8 stalks of celery today with peanut butter..do they cancel each other out?