Walt Whitman Has Come Down Today...

...and he wants you to know:



Stolen from Tojietto at imgfave.

btw, that Whitman reference is from a peom by Perry Brass:

Walt Whitman in 1989

Walt Whitman has come down
today to the hospital room;
he rocks back and forth in the crisis;

he says it's good we haven't lost
our closeness, and cries
as each one is taken

He has writen many lines
about these years: the disfigurement
of young men and the wars

of hard tongues and closed minds.
The body in pain will bear such nobility,
but words have the edge

of poison when spoken bitterly.
Now he takes a dying man
in his arms and tells him

how deeply flows the River
that takes the old man and his friends
this evening. It is the River

of dusk and lamentation.
"Flow." Walt says. "dear River,
I will carry this young man

to your bank. I'll put him myself
on one of your strong, flat boats,
and we'll sail together all the way
through evening."

You can find it in the book Sex Charge. Also it appeared in song form on the Gay American Composers album (Chris de Blasio). Think very deep voice and slow tempo, just perfect. You can have a listen over at amazon (maybe after I will upload it to my radio if I can find the file).

Can we give some more respect to Whitman please?