booksartyoume

'why Walt' timothy r gates, 2/11/2009

dandy,
he did sing the song
American,
quintessential
man's man,
yes
woman's man,
yes
misogynist, racist, classist, bigot,
iconoclast
speciesist, 'could live with
animals'
free-person,
icon
warrior,
resistor
Civil War, North and South,
nurse
soldier,
hero
soldiers, pawns in the hands,
others
religious, irreligious,
contemplative
land, sky, blue or gray,
awe
beauty,
you.
'I celebrate'
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