What is commonest and cheapest and nearest and easiest is Me, Me going…

Walt Whitman
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What is commonest and cheapest and nearest and easiest is Me, Me going in for my chances, spending for vast returns, Adorning myself to bestow myself on the first that will take me, Not asking the sky to come down to my goodwill, Scattering if freely forever. ✨ Walt Whitman, Ezra Greenspan (2005). Walt Whitman's Song of Myself: A Sourcebook and Critical Edition, p.53, Psychology Press
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