I read Whitman
His writing is complicated
Full of ideas that seem arcane
But it’s simply my lack of understanding
In “Kosmos” he explains the house of humanity
“Who constructing … not for a day
but for all time, sees races, eras, dates, generations
The past, the future, dwelling there,
like space, inseparable together”
This I vaguely understood
This I might have experienced
But the continuity of humanity
Seemed to be disjointed to me
But in those 11 lines
In those 180 words
He explains, he remarks
On this continuity
I feel as if from 100 years ago
He is speaking to me
Clarifying my jumbled thoughts
Telling me of the Kosmos
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