Did the Socialist movement of the North of England in the 1850s really uphold Whitman as a 'visionary high priest'.... Help us with this : negotiations, strikes, hunger, illness : with this : and what I assume you shall assume
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Uncle Walt today (19 March 2008) in gangrenous green gloss under the arm as I get off the tube at Stratford & take the Great Eastern towards Ilford, Goodmayes, Chadwell Heath - to be dressed as a prole, his stare vindicates, is to be dressed for all men; I want it to be true that a broke clerk of 'democratic syntax' did not only speak for but was read in rations by real workers in Bury & Bolton - on lunch breaks, at railway stations - by the boys compressed into action along the Mersey, the Thames, the Tyne. Compadres of class, across the Atlantic, docking copies of Leaves of Grass as functional, arms to action, dissatisfaction, as real as their own tools.