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.

tree_ wrote:No, it’s Father’s Day

Spoiler: show

only today, though.

verb_to_trust wrote:I went to this big food truck thing yesterday then saw some friends I hadn't seen in like 5 years. They were all looking pretty bad. Grey hair coming in even though a few were younger than me. I'm still hanging in there..

Monkey_Driven wrote:

verb_to_trust wrote:I went to this big food truck thing yesterday then saw some friends I hadn't seen in like 5 years. They were all looking pretty bad. Grey hair coming in even though a few were younger than me. I'm still hanging in there..

lotta fatties?

verb_to_trust wrote:

Monkey_Driven wrote:

verb_to_trust wrote:I went to this big food truck thing yesterday then saw some friends I hadn't seen in like 5 years. They were all looking pretty bad. Grey hair coming in even though a few were younger than me. I'm still hanging in there..

lotta fatties?

I think what I noticed most was women don't think they need to wear bras anymore

E.H. Ruddock wrote:

tree_ wrote:No, it’s Father’s Day

*Juneteenth

JuanHamm wrote:

verb_to_trust wrote:

Monkey_Driven wrote:

verb_to_trust wrote:I went to this big food truck thing yesterday then saw some friends I hadn't seen in like 5 years. They were all looking pretty bad. Grey hair coming in even though a few were younger than me. I'm still hanging in there..

lotta fatties?

I think what I noticed most was women don't think they need to wear bras anymore

I can't believe they didn't consult you first

verb_to_trust wrote:

JuanHamm wrote:

verb_to_trust wrote:

Monkey_Driven wrote:

verb_to_trust wrote:I went to this big food truck thing yesterday then saw some friends I hadn't seen in like 5 years. They were all looking pretty bad. Grey hair coming in even though a few were younger than me. I'm still hanging in there..

lotta fatties?

I think what I noticed most was women don't think they need to wear bras anymore

I can't believe they didn't consult you first

They don't need to. All they need to do is consult a mirror.

Norris wrote:

verb_to_trust wrote:

JuanHamm wrote:

verb_to_trust wrote:

Monkey_Driven wrote:

verb_to_trust wrote:I went to this big food truck thing yesterday then saw some friends I hadn't seen in like 5 years. They were all looking pretty bad. Grey hair coming in even though a few were younger than me. I'm still hanging in there..

lotta fatties?

I think what I noticed most was women don't think they need to wear bras anymore

I can't believe they didn't consult you first

They don't need to. All they need to do is consult a mirror.

even on your birthday you're a giant piece of shit