September 18th, 2012 at 3:54PM
I am the actor and the actress … . the voter . . the         politician, The emigrant and the exile . . the criminal that stood in the         box, He who has been famous, and he who shall be famous after         today, The stammerer … . the wellformed person . . the wasted         or feeble person. I am she who adorned herself and folded her hair expectantly, My truant lover has come and it is dark. Double yourself and receive me darkness, Receive me and my lover too … . he will not let me go         without him. I roll myself upon you as upon a bed … . I resign myself         to the dusk. from “The Sleepers” by Walt Whitman


I am the actor and the actress … . the voter . . the

        politician,

The emigrant and the exile . . the criminal that stood in the

        box,

He who has been famous, and he who shall be famous after

        today,

The stammerer … . the wellformed person . . the wasted

        or feeble person.

I am she who adorned herself and folded her hair expectantly,

My truant lover has come and it is dark.

Double yourself and receive me darkness,

Receive me and my lover too … . he will not let me go

        without him.

I roll myself upon you as upon a bed … . I resign myself

        to the dusk.

from “The Sleepers”

by Walt Whitman

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