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Thought - 4 by Walt Whitman
Of persons arrived at high positions, ceremonies, wealth, scholarships, and the like; To me, all that those persons have arrived at, sinks away from them, except as it results to their Bodies and Souls, So that often to me they appear gaunt and naked; And often, to me, each one mocks the others, and mocks himself or herself, And of each one, the core of life, namely happiness, is full of the rotten excrement of maggots, And often, to me, those men and women pass unwittingly the true realities of life, and go toward false realities, And often, to me, they are alive after what custom has served them, but nothing more, And often, to me, they are sad, hasty, unwaked sonnambules, walking the dusk.
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For The Foxes by Charles Bukowski
don't feel sorry for me. I am a competent, satisfied human being.
be sorry for the others who fidget complain
who constantly rearrange their lives like furniture.
juggling mates and attitudes
their confusion is constant
and it will touch whoever they deal with.
beware of them: one of their key words is 'love.'
and beware those who only take instructions from their God
for they have failed completely to live their own lives.
don't feel sorry for me because I am alone
for even at the most terrible moments humor is my companion.
I am a dog walking backwards
I am a broken banjo
I am a telephone wire strung up in Toledo, Ohio
I am a man eating a meal this night in the month of September.
put your sympathy aside. they say water held up Christ: to come through you better be nearly as lucky.
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Shut Not Your Doors by Walt Whitman
Shut not your doors to me, proud libraries, For that which was lacking on all your well-fill'd shelves, yet needed most, I bring; Forth from the army, the war emerging--a book I have made, The words of my book nothing--the drift of it everything; A book separate, not link'd with the rest, nor felt by the intellect, But you, ye untold latencies, will thrill to every page; Through Space and Time fused in a chant, and the flowing, eternal Identity, To Nature, encompassing these, encompassing God--to the joyous, electric All, To the sense of Death--and accepting, exulting in Death, in its turn, the same as life, The entrance of Man I sing.
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The Torch by Walt Whitman
On my northwest coast in the midst of the night, a fishermen's group stands watching; Out on the lake, that expands before them, others are spearing salmon; The canoe, a dim shadowy thing, moves across the black water, Bearing a Torch a-blaze at the prow.
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