by Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892)

Language: English 
Who goes there? hankering, gross, mystical, and nude;
How is it I extract strength from the beef I eat?
What is  ...  man anyhow? what am I? what are you?
All I mark as my own you shall offset it with your own,
Else it were time lost a-listening to me.
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