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Walt Whitman

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The 1855 edition of Leaves of Grass, in order, little by little, over and over.

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Walt Whitman @skeetsofgrass.bsky.social · 7m

Old age superbly rising! Ineffable grace of dying days!

Walt Whitman @skeetsofgrass.bsky.social · 2h

Noiselessly passing handfuls out of their hearts and giving them to be mine.

Walt Whitman @skeetsofgrass.bsky.social · 4h

Bussing my body with soft and balsamic busses,

Walt Whitman @skeetsofgrass.bsky.social · 6h

Lighting on every moment of my life,

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Walt Whitman @skeetsofgrass.bsky.social · 8h

Or while I swim in the bath .... or drink from the pump at the corner .... or the curtain is down at the opera .... or I glimpse at a woman’s face in the railroad car;

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Walt Whitman @skeetsofgrass.bsky.social · 10h

Calling my name from flowerbeds or vines or tangled underbrush,

Walt Whitman @skeetsofgrass.bsky.social · 12h

Crying by day Ahoy from the rocks of the river .... swinging and chirping over my head,

Walt Whitman @skeetsofgrass.bsky.social · 14h

Jostling me through streets and public halls .... coming naked to me at night,

Walt Whitman @skeetsofgrass.bsky.social · 16h

Crowding my lips, and thick in the pores of my skin,

Walt Whitman @skeetsofgrass.bsky.social · 17h

My lovers suffocate me!

Walt Whitman @skeetsofgrass.bsky.social · 20h

Span of youth! Ever-pushed elasticity! Manhood balanced and florid and full!

Walt Whitman @skeetsofgrass.bsky.social · 22h

Now I stand on this spot with my soul.

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Walt Whitman @skeetsofgrass.bsky.social · 1d

All forces have been steadily employed to complete and delight me,

Walt Whitman @skeetsofgrass.bsky.social · 1d

Monstrous sauroids transported it in their mouths and deposited it with care.

Walt Whitman @skeetsofgrass.bsky.social · 1d

For it the nebula cohered to an orb .... the long slow strata piled to rest it on .... vast vegetables gave it sustenance,

Walt Whitman @skeetsofgrass.bsky.social · 1d

My embryo has never been torpid .... nothing could overlay it;

Walt Whitman @skeetsofgrass.bsky.social · 1d

Before I was born out of my mother generations guided me,

Walt Whitman @skeetsofgrass.bsky.social · 1d

They sent influences to look after what was to hold me.

Walt Whitman @skeetsofgrass.bsky.social · 1d

For room to me stars kept aside in their own rings,

Walt Whitman @skeetsofgrass.bsky.social · 1d

Cycles ferried my cradle, sowing and rowing like cheerful boatmen;

Walt Whitman @skeetsofgrass.bsky.social · 1d

Faithful and friendly the arms that have helped me.

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Walt Whitman @skeetsofgrass.bsky.social · 1d

Immense have been the preparations for me,

Walt Whitman @skeetsofgrass.bsky.social · 1d

Long I was hugged close .... long and long.

Walt Whitman @skeetsofgrass.bsky.social · 1d

And took my time .... and took no hurt from the fœtid carbon.

Walt Whitman @skeetsofgrass.bsky.social · 2d

And slept while God carried me through the lethargic mist,