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Walt Whitman's Notebook

Song Cycle by Michael Ippolito (b. 1985)

1.
 (Sung text)

Language: English 
Make no puns
funny remarks
Double entendres
“witty” remarks
ironies
Sarcasms
Only that which
is simply earnest
meant, — harmless
to anyone’s feelings
— unadorned
unvarnished
nothing to
excite a
laugh
silence
silence
silence
silence
laconic
taciturn.

Text Authorship:

  • by Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892), appears in Diaries

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Researcher for this page: Malcolm Wren [Guest Editor]

2.
 (Sung text)

Language: English 
George Walker
Edward Smithson
John Swinton (Lewis
his bro.
Sam (with black eyes
& cap)
Henry Hearne
William Meeker
William Phillips
George P. Morris
Leo
Pete Dempsey
Henry Post (Fulton
op. Eagle office
Nick (black 
Eyes 40th st—small)
Joe (Canadian-Montreal)
Bill Young (milkman and driver)
George Applegate (tallest)

Text Authorship:

  • by Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892), appears in Diaries

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3.
 (Sung text)

Language: English 
Gentlemen, I will be very 
plain with you. — I see
in my country many great
qualities — I see in 
America not merely the
home of Americans, but 
the home of the needy
and down-kept races
of the whole earth. — I 
know just as well as
you the terrible
effects of ages and degradation
and caste. — It is a
real truth — it is a
black and bloody lesson —
A. Baker, Boots
15 Ann st
Stout boots $4
Double water proof 4.50

Text Authorship:

  • by Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892), appears in Diaries

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Researcher for this page: Malcolm Wren [Guest Editor]
Total word count: 171
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