for I confront peace, security, and all the settled laws,
to unsettle them""
--Walt Whitman
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Walt Whitman can't remember
what he did with America.
It was there in his back pocket
yesterday or the day before:
caroling, brawling, lusty, democratic;
stretching its broad-backed plains
in the sun between seas.
He walks from door to door
selling subscriptions to the Universe.
Who are these sad-eyed does,
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