perpetual payment for a perpetual loan…

“Parting track'd by arriving, perpetual payment of perpetual loan,

Rich showering rain, and recompense richer afterward.

Sprouts take and accumulate, stand by the curb prolific and vital,

Landscapes projected “

— walt whitman*, Song of Myself, 29

* It has come to my attention, that the racist flaws of Walt Whitman need to illuminated so that we can reconstitute our collective humanity with collective thinking:

Should Walt Whitman Be #Cancelled?

Black America talks back to “The Good Gray Poet” at 200.

By: Lavelle Porter

April 17, 2019