Native Moments
By Walt Whitman
Native moments! when you come upon me - Ah you are here now! Give me now libidinous joys only! Give me the drench of my passions! Give me life coarse and rank! To-day, I go consort with nature's darlings - to-night too; I am for those who believe in loose delights - I share the midnight orgies of young men; I dance with the dancers, and drink with the drinkers; The echoes ring with our indecent calls; I take for my love some prostitute - I pick out some low person for my dearest friend, He shall be lawless, rude, illiterate - he shall be one condemn'd by others for deeds done; I will play a part no longer - Why should I exile myself from my companions? O you shunn'd persons! I at least do not shun you, I come forthwith in your midst - I will be your poet, I will be more to you than to any of the rest.
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"Native moments! when you come upon me - Ah you are here now! ..."
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