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on So Long by Walt Whitman, on November 19, 2007

the other ending
I had heard an ending that went
"I am as one disembodied, triumphant, immortal..."

It just sounded better.
on I Dream'd In A Dream by Walt Whitman, on November 19, 2007

I once lived in that city
We all knew what city it was, that Whitman spoke of. The city of Friends, although that wasn't really it's name. It's been almost 30 years now since I was there. So much has changed. That "city" in the Sierra foolhills.
on O Captain! My Captain! by Walt Whitman, on November 19, 2007

Abraham Lincoln
"His gaze, though somewhat abstracted, was directed steadily in my eye." From an essay Whitman wrote on Abraham Lincoln when Whitman lived in Washington, and saw Lincoln almost daily. Lincoln was the reason the Civil War was fought. The melancholy that permeated Lincolns 56 years of life finally disappeared after he had made certain the United States would remain ONE COUNTRY. He had accomplished the immense and awful task higher forces had assigned him and his role on Earth was done.
on A Supermarket In California by Allen Ginsberg, on November 19, 2007

the spin on whitman
quite humorous, actually. I've read leaves of grass so many times I've lost count and these phrases are absolutely recognizable. There is a book called Lincoln and Whitman: Parallel Lives in Civil War Washington. Quite illuminating. Very excellent. Whitman was America's only conscious poet. Whilst Lincoln was America's only conscious president.