This face is a dog's snout sniffing for garbage, snakes nest in that m…

Walt Whitman
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This face is a dog's snout sniffing for garbage, snakes nest in that mouth, I hear the sibilant threat. ✨ Walt Whitman, Sculley Bradley, Harold W. Blodgett (2008). Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856, p.134, NYU Press
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This face is a dog's snout sniffing for garbage, snakes nest in that mouth, I hear the sibilant threat. ✨ Walt Whitman, Sculley Bradley, Harold W. Blodgett (2008). Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856, p.134, NYU Press

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