excerpt from
Native Moments by Walt Whitman
25. from Leaves of Grass (1900)
"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;..."
~*~
