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Part 4: These Please The Soul Well

from I Sing The Body Electric by Matt Riggen

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I have never really felt this way except about maybe a dozen people since I've reached adulthood. I can see what he means, though. I would like to feel this sort of openness again, and this part gives me hope that I can relearn it.

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I have perceiv’d that to be with those I like is enough,
To stop in company with the rest at evening is enough,
To be surrounded by beautiful, curious, breathing, laughing flesh is enough,
To pass among them or touch any one, or rest my arm ever so lightly round his or her neck for a moment, what is this then?
I do not ask any more delight, I swim in it as in a sea.

There is something in staying close to men and women and looking on them, and in the contact and odor of them, that pleases the soul well,
All things please the soul, but these please the soul well.

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from I Sing The Body Electric, released May 1, 2020
Walt Whitman: poetry
Matt Riggen: narration, composition, trumpet, trombones, tuba, drumset

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