Today is Walt Whitman’s 205th birthday. In recognition of the great wild and white-haired grandfather of American poetry entering our cosmos, we should all take a moment to “sound [our] barbaric yawp over the rooftops of the world.”
In that spirit, here is one of my favorite scenes in all …
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