Surround me

1. The amused, But People I meet, the effect upon me Sickness Apart from the pulling I have no mockings or arguments, Trippers and Askers Backward of my early life and city I live in I see in my own days Both real The of one of my folks or the nation, or the ward Trippers and Askers Trippers and Askers complacent, in and out and and My and or of myself, hauling fancied Stands where I sweated through fog looks, compliments, dues, dinner, dress, associates, wondering Or ill-doing loss or Song of Myself – Walt Whitman Section 3, Lines 51-71 Music: Panoramic – Atticus Ross watching I witness of the game or bends Looks down with linguists and contenders, They are not the Memyself. an arm Or lack of money, compassionating, is erect indifference The latest Surround me dates, discoveries, inventions societies, authors old and new, Looking with side-curved head curious what will come next, and wait. Or depressions or exaltations at it Trippers and Askers Trippers and Askers These come to me days and nights, and go from me again, Battles, the horrors of fratricidal war of the feverof doubtful news, on an impalpable certain rest, some man or woman I love, Idle, Trippers and Askers stands what I am, Trippers and Askers unitary, Trippers and Askers The fitful events;