Thursday, February 13, 2020

Walt Whitman with Mayor Buttplug

A noiseless patient spider,
I mark’d where on a little promontory it stood isolated
Next to the stapler thrower and the old babbling man
On a box to reach the crowd endlessly banning 
Only I might win not the money lending Hebrew
or the fake Indian shrew
Mark’d how to explore the vacant vast surrounding,
It launch’d forth filament, filament, filament, out of itself,
Ever unreeling them, ever tirelessly speeding them


13 comments:

The Dude said...

How could you forget:

Limitless limpid jets of love hot and enormous, quivering jelly of love,
White-blow and delirious nice,
Bridegroom night of love working surely and softly into the prostrate dawn,
Undulating into the willing and yielding day,
Lost in the cleave of the clasping and sweet-flesh’d day.

I Sing the Body Electric by Walt Whitman

Everyone who ever saw Bull Durham knows those lines.

ricpic said...

Charles Nelson Reilly was okay but the king of cool homos was Paul Lynde.

chickelit said...

Filaments out the butt is just nasty, Troop.

chickelit said...

ricpic said...Charles Nelson Reilly was okay but the king of cool homos was Paul Lynde.

Here's an old chirbit of me reciting Titus in Paul Lynde voice: link. Note, I didn't script this -- I couldn't write that filth -- it was a verbatim Titus comment at TY.

MamaM said...

TY's resources and resourcefulness never cease to amaze, along with his ability to pervert, thwart, instigate, twist, and spin with the best of them, spiders included.

What's the male version of a sly minx? Asking for a friend.

Dad Bones said...

What's the male version of a sly minx? Asking for a friend.

The honey badger comes to mind on this Valentine's Day.

ndspinelli said...

Nobody handled that long, skinny, phallic microphone like Gene Rayburn.

deborah said...

Nick, you bad boy.

I've seen Durham a few times, but it's been a while. So I did not recall that scene, but glad of the reminder. Bull Durham is the best baseball movie. Although I have to give Major League its due for being the slapstick funniest. Apples and oranges.

deborah said...

Brilliant, chick, thank you for that. Old days, good days I remember.

MamaM said...

Well, there you go! A bad boy/honey badger combo that covers the territory, with a big ol' bad boy honey badger conveying the disarming charm and lethal potency that pairs well with sly minx.

The author of the words used in the linked chirbit came through to me as duplicitous, repeatedly displaying an insincere and calculating approach. While I respected his cunning, I did not respect his character. He/it lacked integrity and did not ring true.

chickelit said...

The author of the words used in the linked chirbit came through to me as duplicitous, repeatedly displaying an insincere and calculating approach. While I respected his cunning, I did not respect his character. He/it lacked integrity and did not ring true.


I agree with you, MamaM. I had to delete Titus from the comments at my blog. He and I never got along. But I thought why not get a few laughs?

The Dude said...

You did well, CL. Hope you washed your mouth out with soap after recording that. :^)

Wonder whatever happened to that hapless soul - there was a level of dishonesty and deceit that hung around him like the stench of a tire fire. He was truly a damaged human who had no interest in unfucking himself, if I may quote Gunnery Sergeant Hartman from FMJ.

In any case, I am glad to still be here, still carryin' on like a good ol' boy.

MamaM said...

As Sixty indicated, chickelit, your skill at capturing voice and essence came through once again, with the whale sounds adding to the effect. Hearing the author's words repeated brought back the perversion presented, which involved lies and distortions used to manipulate, fool and lampoon others, with a wink and nod of approval from the arbitrator of good faith comments.

Come to think of it, good old boy, is also one of those semi-benign but potent terms!