i sing the body electric
(for those of you reading via RSS or facebook: please note: this item from February is being reposted as it was accidentally deleted during a server backup).
I have perceiv’d that to be with those I like is enough,
to stop in company with the rest at evening is enough,
To be surrounded by beautiful, curious, breathing laughing flesh is enough,
To pass among them or touch any one, or rest my arm ever so lightly
round his or her neck for a moment, what is this then?
I do not ask any more delight, I swim in it as in a sea.
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I am larger, better than I thought,
I did not know I held so much goodness.
All seems beautiful to me,
I can repeat over to men and women, You have done such good to me
I would do the same to you,
I will recruit for myself and you as I go,
I will scatter myself among men and women as I go,
I will toss a new gladness and roughness among them,
Whoever denies me it shall not trouble me,
Whoever accepts me he or she shall be blessed and shall bless me.
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Now I see the secret of the makings of the best persons,
It is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth.
~ excerpts of Walt Whitman, 19. I Sing the body Electric and 82. Song of the Open Road from Leaves of Grass
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