Wednesday, August 6, 2014

Drinking Late with Walt Whitman Valentine

I light the voices in my head
like fires along a beach
each fire lighting the next
along a twisting line to Greece
or some other significant piece
of emotional legislation I sail
through it and salute you
as Walt would have us do
tough beloved camerados
I love how he talks
a whole country could be
usefully devoted to its language
the machinery of its motivation
adding to the conversations
between evolutions

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