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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=391482" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Ode to Walt Whitman</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">By the East River and the Bronx<br>boys were singing, exposing their waists<br>with the wheel, with oil, leather, and the hammer.<br>Ninety thousand miners taking silver from the rocks<br>and children drawing stairs and perspectives.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But none of them could sleep,<br>none of them wanted to be the river,<br>none of them loved the huge leaves<br>or the shoreline's blue tongue.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">By the East River and the Queensboro<br>boys were battling with industry<br>and the Jews sold to the river faun<br>the rose of circumcision,<br>and over bridges and rooftops, the mouth of the sky emptied<br>herds of bison driven by the wind.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But none of them paused,<br>none of them wanted to be a cloud,<br>none of them looked for ferns<br>or the yellow wheel of a tambourine.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">As soon as the moon rises<br>the pulleys will spin to alter the sky;<br>a border of needles will besiege memory<br>and the coffins will bear away those who don't work.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">New York, mire,<br>New York, mire and death.<br>What angel is hidden in your cheek?<br>Whose perfect voice will sing the truths of wheat?<br>Who, the terrible dream of your stained anemones?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Not for a moment, Walt Whitman, lovely old man,<br>have I failed to see your beard full of butterflies,<br>nor your corduroy shoulders frayed by the moon,<br>nor your thighs pure as Apollo's,<br>nor your voice like a column of ash,<br>old man, beautiful as the mist, <br>you moaned like a bird<br>with its sex pierced by a needle.<br>Enemy of the satyr,<br>enemy of the vine,<br>and lover of bodies beneath rough cloth...</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Not for a moment, virile beauty,<br>who among mountains of coal, billboards, and railroads,<br>dreamed of becoming a river and sleeping like a river<br>with that comrade who would place in your breast<br>the small ache of an ignorant leopard.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Not for a moment, Adam of blood, Macho,<br>man alone at sea, Walt Whitman, lovely old man,<br>because on penthouse roofs,<br>gathered at bars,<br>emerging in bunches from the sewers,<br>trembling between the legs of chauffeurs,<br>or spinning on dance floors wet with absinthe,<br>the faggots, Walt Whitman, point you out.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He's one, too! That's right! And they land<br>on your luminous chaste beard,<br>blonds from the north, blacks from the sands,<br>crowds of howls and gestures,<br>like cats or like snakes,<br>the faggots, Walt Whitman, the faggots,<br>clouded with tears, flesh for the whip,<br>the boot, or the teeth of the lion tamers.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He's one, too! That's right! Stained fingers<br>point to the shore of your dream<br>when a friend eats your apple<br>with a slight taste of gasoline<br>and the sun sings in the navels<br>of boys who play under bridges.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But you didn't look for scratched eyes,<br>nor the darkest swamp where someone submerges children,<br>nor frozen saliva,<br>nor the curves slit open like a toad's belly<br>that the faggots wear in cars and on terraces<br>while the moon lashes them on the street corners of terror.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">You looked for a naked body like a river.<br>Bull and dream who would join wheel with seaweed,<br>father of your agony, camellia of your death,<br>who would groan in the blaze of your hidden equator.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Because it's all right if a man doesn't look for his delight<br>in tomorrow morning's jungle of blood.<br>The sky has shores where life is avoided<br>and there are bodies that shouldn't repeat themselves in the dawn.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Agony, agony, dream, ferment, and dream.<br>This is the world, my friend, agony, agony.<br>Bodies decompose beneath the city clocks,<br>war passes by in tears, followed by a million gray rats,<br>the rich give their mistresses<br>small illuminated dying things,<br>and life is neither noble, nor good, nor sacred.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Man is able, if he wishes, to guide his desire<br>through a vein of coral or a heavenly naked body.<br>Tomorrow, loves will become stones, and Time<br>a breeze that drowses in the branches.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">That's why I don't raise my voice, old Walt Whitman,<br>against the little boy who writes<br>the name of a girl on his pillow,<br>nor against the boy who dresses as a bride<br>in the darkness of the wardrobe,<br>nor against the solitary men in casinos<br>who drink prostitution's water with revulsion,<br>nor against the men with that green look in their eyes<br>who love other men and burn their lips in silence.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But yes against you, urban faggots,<br>tumescent flesh and unclean thoughts.<br>Mothers of mud. Harpies. Sleepless enemies<br>of the love that bestows crowns of joy.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Always against you, who give boys<br>drops of foul death with bitter poison.<br>Always against you,<br>Fairies of North America,<br>Pájaros of Havana,<br>Jotos of Mexico,<br>Sarasas of Cádiz,<br>Apios of Seville,<br>Cancos of Madrid,<br>Floras of Alicante,<br>Adelaidas of Portugal.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Faggots of the world, murderers of doves!<br>Slaves of women. Their bedroom bitches.<br>Opening in public squares like feverish fans<br>or ambushed in rigid hemlock landscapes.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">No quarter given! Death<br>spills from your eyes<br>and gathers gray flowers at the mire's edge.<br>No quarter given! Attention!<br>Let the confused, the pure,<br>the classical, the celebrated, the supplicants<br>close the doors of the bacchanal to you.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And you, lovely Walt Whitman, stay asleep on the Hudson's banks<br>with your beard toward the pole, openhanded.<br>Soft clay or snow, your tongue calls for<br>comrades to keep watch over your unbodied gazelle.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Sleep on, nothing remains.<br>Dancing walls stir the prairies<br>and America drowns itself in machinery and lament.<br>I want the powerful air from the deepest night<br>to blow away flowers and inscriptions from the arch where you sleep,<br>and a black child to inform the gold-craving whites<br>that the kingdom of grain has arrived.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Federico+Garc%C3%ADa+Lorca">Federico García Lorca</a><div class=q>
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boys were singing, exposing their waists
with the wheel, with oil, leather, and the hammer.
Ninety thousand miners taking silver from the rocks
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