February 19th, 2011 / 2:19 pm
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Spicer on Whitman

Forgive me Walt Whitman, you whose fine mouth has sucked the cock of the heart of the country for fifty years.  You did not ever understand cruelty.  It was that that severed your world from me, fouled your moon and your ocean, threw me out of your bearded paradise.  The comrade you are walking with suddenly twists your hand off.  The ghost-bird that is singing to you suddenly leaves a large seagull dropping in your eye.  You are sucking the cock of a heart that has clap.

from “Some Notes on Whitman for Allen Joyce”

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12 Comments

  1. February 19th, 2011 / 6:51 pm NLY—

      Ha. Pfft.

  2. February 19th, 2011 / 9:55 pm stephen—

      wtf is a Jack Spicer?

  3. February 19th, 2011 / 10:15 pm Sean—

      You sure this isn’t Antler?

  4. February 19th, 2011 / 10:46 pm jesusangelgarcia—

      brute beauty.

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  6. February 20th, 2011 / 8:49 am krysbeau—

      Whitman knew cruelty and brutality in ways most of us probably aren’t privy to today. Check his writings on civil war executions in Specimen Days. Or take into account his efforts at civil war hospitals to attend to hopelessly wounded in whatever way he could. He knew cruelty, yet he still believed in progress (he devoured Hegel) and the triumph of love. It’ll take more than this to convince me he was naive about the country.

  7. February 20th, 2011 / 4:12 pm turk183—

      Bivouac-zacktly.

  8. February 21st, 2011 / 1:49 pm Jack M—

      Shock chic is dead.

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