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SAN DIEGO - A Retail Opportunity Investments Corp. divulgou nesta quarta-feira uma importante medida de rentabilidade em seu quarto trimestre. A estimativa média de nove analistas pesquisados ​​pela Zacks Investment Research foi de fundos de operações de 29 centavos por ação. Seis analistas consultados pela Zacks esperavam 71 milhões de dólares.
FREMONT, Califórnia - A AXT Inc. divulgou na quarta-feira lucros de US $ 3,1 milhões no quarto trimestre. A estimativa média de cinco analistas consultados pela Zacks Investment Research também foi de 8 centavos por ação. Quatro analistas pesquisados ​​pela Zacks esperavam 26,7 milhões de dólares.
BURLINGTON, Massachusetts - A Everbridge Inc. divulgou nesta quarta-feira uma perda de US $ 5,8 milhões no quarto trimestre. Para o trimestre atual que termina em abril, Everbridge espera que seus resultados variem de uma perda de 21 centavos por ação para uma perda de 20 centavos por ação. Everbridge espera que os resultados do ano inteiro vão desde uma perda de 61 centavos por ação até uma perda de 58 centavos por ação, com.
WASHINGTON - O CoStar Group Inc. divulgou nesta quarta-feira lucro no quarto trimestre de US $ 44,2 milhões. A estimativa média de cinco analistas pesquisados ​​pela Zacks Investment Research foi de ganhos de US $ 1,26 por ação. Quatro analistas entrevistados pela Zacks esperavam 253,9 milhões de dólares.
BILLINGS, Mont. Um juiz disse a autoridades federais que revisassem documentos relacionados ao controverso oleoduto Keystone XL, depois que ambientalistas acusaram o governo de reter detalhes sobre a aprovação do projeto. O juiz distrital Brian Morris, em Montana, disse na quarta-feira que o governo deve fornecer todos os documentos relevantes até 21 de março.
SAN DIEGO - O Encore Capital Group Inc. divulgou nesta quarta-feira lucro líquido no quarto trimestre de US $ 12,7 milhões. A estimativa média de cinco analistas consultados pela Zacks Investment Research foi de 93 centavos por ação. Cinco analistas pesquisados ​​pela Zacks esperavam 284,3 milhões de dólares.
SAN JUAN, Porto Rico - A Evertec Inc. divulgou nesta quarta-feira lucros de US $ 5,8 milhões no quarto trimestre. A estimativa média de seis analistas consultados pela Zacks Investment Research foi de 23 centavos por ação. A Evertec espera ganhos anuais na faixa de US $ 1,25 a US $ 1,41 por ação, com receita na faixa de US $ 411 milhões a US $ 425 milhões.
21/02 - A fabricante de peças para aeronaves United Technologies está explorando uma divisão de seu portfólio de negócios, incluindo motores a jato, elevadores e condicionadores de ar, disse o presidente-executivo Greg Hayes na conferência de investidores do Barclays em Miami na quarta-feira. Hayes disse que a decisão sobre a UTC, que faz com que os elevadores Otis Elevadores, motores de aeronaves da Pratt & Whitney e Carrier Air.
SAN DIEGO _ Bridgepoint Education Inc. na quarta-feira relatou uma perda de US $ 5,7 milhões em seu quarto trimestre. A empresa sediada em San Diego disse que teve uma perda de 20 centavos por ação. No ano, a empresa registrou lucro líquido de US $ 10,5 milhões, ou 32 centavos por ação, atingindo lucro no período.
BRASÍLIA, 21/02 - O Ibama decidirá sobre o pedido da petroleira francesa Total para perfurar a bacia do rio Amazonas, sensível ao meio ambiente, antes do final de maio e, possivelmente, até o final de março, disse à Reuters na quarta-feira. Em agosto passado, o Ibama ordenou que a Total fornecesse informações faltando em sua solicitação.
PASADENA, Califórnia - A Green Dot Corp. divulgou nesta quarta-feira lucro líquido no quarto trimestre de US $ 12,2 milhões, após reportar uma perda no mesmo período um ano antes. A estimativa média de nove analistas consultados pela Zacks Investment Research foi de 25 centavos por ação. Sete analistas entrevistados pela Zacks esperavam US $ 206,3 milhões.
21 de fevereiro - Pandora Media Inc informou a receita de quarto quarto na quarta-feira que superou estimativas de Wall Street como a companhia de rádio de Internet acrescentou mais assinantes à sua plataforma. Um participante tardio do negócio de serviços de música sob demanda, o forte crescimento de assinantes da Pandora vem depois do diretor executivo Roger Lynch, que substituiu o co-fundador Tim Westergren.
As ações da Baker Hughes, da General Electric, subiram na quarta-feira, depois que a controladora informou que não perderia suas participações no negócio de serviços petrolíferos antes de expirar um período de dois anos, revertendo uma postura anterior que gerou incerteza. em torno do estoque. Neste momento, não temos a intenção de mudar nada ou.
DETROIT, 21 de fevereiro - A Ford Motor Co. disse na quarta-feira que Raj Nair, seu presidente para a América do Norte, estava deixando a empresa imediatamente após uma investigação interna achar que seu comportamento era "inconsistente com o código de conduta da empresa". Ford não deu detalhes sobre o que esse comportamento implicava. "Tomamos essa decisão depois de uma revisão completa e cuidadosa.
DENVER _ SRC Energy Inc. na quarta-feira relatou lucro no quarto trimestre de US $ 50,8 milhões. A estimativa média de 11 analistas consultados pela Zacks Investment Research foi de 26 centavos por ação. Dez analistas pesquisados ​​pela Zacks esperavam US $ 133,7 milhões.
ANNAPOLIS, Maryland - A Hannon Armstrong Sustainable Infrastructure Capital Inc. divulgou nesta quarta-feira lucro líquido no quarto trimestre de US $ 3,4 milhões. A estimativa média de seis analistas pesquisados ​​pela Zacks Investment Research foi de ganhos de 32 centavos por ação. Quatro analistas pesquisados ​​pela Zacks esperavam 9,9 milhões de dólares.
SUGAR LAND, Texas - A Applied Optoelectronics Inc. divulgou nesta quarta-feira lucro líquido no quarto trimestre de US $ 5,7 milhões. A estimativa média de sete analistas pesquisados ​​pela Zacks Investment Research foi de lucro de 82 centavos por ação. Para o atual trimestre encerrado em abril, a Applied Optoelectronics espera que seus ganhos por ação variem de 28 centavos a 34.
O DALLAS _ Energy Transfer Equity L. P. divulgou nesta quarta-feira lucro de US $ 251 milhões no quarto trimestre. A estimativa média de seis analistas pesquisados ​​pela Zacks Investment Research foi de ganhos de 32 centavos por ação. As ações da Transferência de Energia por Ações diminuíram 5,5% desde o começo do ano.
A CyrusOne Inc. informou nesta quarta-feira uma importante medida de rentabilidade em seu quarto trimestre. O fundo de investimento imobiliário de Dallas disse que tinha fundos de operações de US $ 78,4 milhões, ou 84 centavos por ação, no período. A estimativa média de 11 analistas pesquisados ​​pela Zacks Investment Research foi de fundos de operações de 81 centavos por ação.
DETROIT, 21 de fevereiro - A Ford Motor Co. disse na quarta-feira que Raj Nair, seu presidente para a América do Norte, estava deixando a empresa imediatamente após uma investigação interna achar que seu comportamento era "inconsistente com o código de conduta da empresa". Ford não deu detalhes sobre o que esse comportamento implicava. "Tomamos essa decisão depois de uma revisão completa e cuidadosa.

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Canção de mim mesmo.
Por Walt Whitman.
E o que eu suponho, você deve assumir
Pois todo átomo que pertence a mim pertence a você.
Eu me inclino e seguro à minha vontade, observando uma lança de grama de verão.
Nascido aqui de pais nascidos aqui de pais o mesmo e o deles / delas.
pais o mesmo,
Eu, agora com trinta e sete anos em perfeita saúde,
Esperando não cessar até a morte.
Retirando-se um pouco, bastou o que eles são, mas nunca esquecidos,
Eu porto para o bem ou para o mal, eu permito falar em todos os perigos,
Natureza sem cheque com energia original.
Eu respiro a fragrância eu mesmo, conheço e gosto disso,
A destilação me intoxicava também, mas não deixarei.
destilação, é inodoro,
É para a minha boca para sempre, eu estou apaixonada por isso,
Eu irei ao banco ao lado da floresta e ficarei sem disfarces e nu
Eu sou louco por isso estar em contato comigo.
Ecos, ondulações, murmúrios, raiz amorosa, fio de seda, virilha e videira,
Minha respiração e inspiração, o bater do meu coração, a passagem.
de sangue e ar através dos meus pulmões,
O cheiro de folhas verdes e folhas secas, e da costa e.
rochas do mar de cores escuras e de feno no celeiro,
Alguns beijos leves, alguns abraços, um abraço de braços,
O jogo de brilho e sombra nas árvores como os ramos flexíveis abanam,
O prazer sozinho ou na pressa das ruas, ou ao longo dos campos.
A sensação de saúde, o trinado no meio-dia, a música de mim se elevando.
da cama e encontrando o sol.
Você tem praticado tanto tempo para aprender a ler?
Você se sentiu tão orgulhoso de entender o significado dos poemas?
Você deve possuir o bem da terra e do sol (há milhões.
Você não deve mais levar as coisas em segunda ou terceira mão, nem olhar através delas.
os olhos dos mortos, nem se alimentam dos espectros em livros,
Você não deve olhar através dos meus olhos, nem tirar as coisas de mim,
Você deve ouvir todos os lados e filtrá-los de si mesmo.
começo e fim,
Mas eu não falo do começo nem do fim.
Nem mais juventude ou idade do que existe agora,
E nunca haverá mais perfeição do que existe agora
Nem mais céu ou inferno do que existe agora.
Sempre o desejo procriador do mundo.
aumentar, sempre sexo,
Sempre uma ligação de identidade, sempre distinção, sempre uma espécie de vida.
Para elaborar não adiantou, aprendeu e desaprendeu sentir que é assim.
entretido, apoiado nas vigas,
Stout como um cavalo, carinhoso, altivo, elétrico,
Eu e este mistério estamos aqui.
Até que isso se torne invisível e receba a prova por sua vez.
Conhecendo a perfeita adequação e equanimidade das coisas, enquanto eles.
discuto que estou em silêncio e vou me banhar e me admirar.
Nem uma polegada nem uma partícula de uma polegada é vil, e nenhuma deve ser.
menos familiar do que o resto.
Como o abraço e amoroso companheiro de cama dorme ao meu lado durante a noite,
e se retira no peep do dia com passos furtivos,
Deixando-me cestas cobertas com toalhas brancas inchando a casa.
Devo adiar minha aceitação e realização e gritar aos meus olhos,
Que eles deixam de olhar para depois e para baixo na estrada,
E imediatamente cifra e mostre-me um centavo
Exatamente o valor de um e exatamente o valor de dois e que está à frente?
Pessoas que eu conheço, o efeito sobre mim da minha vida precoce ou da ala e.
cidade em que eu moro, ou a nação,
As últimas datas, descobertas, invenções, sociedades, autores antigos e novos,
Meu jantar, vestido, associados, olhares, elogios, dívidas,
A indiferença real ou imaginada de algum homem ou mulher que eu amo,
A doença de um dos meus pais ou de mim mesmo, ou doentio ou perda.
ou falta de dinheiro, ou depressões ou exaltações,
Batalhas, os horrores da guerra fratricida, a febre das notícias duvidosas,
os eventos intermitentes;
Estes vêm para mim dias e noites e vão de mim novamente,
Mas eles não são eu mesmo.
Está divertido, complacente, compassivo, ocioso, unitário,
Olha para baixo, está ereto, ou dobra um braço em um certo descanso impalpável,
Olhando com a cabeça curvada para o lado, curioso o que virá a seguir,
Tanto dentro quanto fora do jogo e observando e imaginando isso.
linguistas e contendores,
Não tenho escárnios ou argumentos, testemunho e espero.
E você não deve ser humilhado ao outro.
Não palavras, não música ou rima eu quero, não costume ou palestra, não.
Apenas a calma que eu gosto, o zumbido da sua voz valvulada.
Como você colocou sua cabeça em meus quadris e gentilmente se virou para mim,
E separei a camisa do meu peito e mergulhei sua língua.
para o meu coração nu,
E alcancei até que você sentiu minha barba e alcançou até que você segurou meus pés.
todo o argumento da terra,
E eu sei que a mão de Deus é a promessa da minha própria
E eu sei que o espírito de Deus é meu irmão,
E que todos os homens nascidos são também meus irmãos e as mulheres.
minhas irmãs e amantes
E que um kelson da criação é amor,
E ilimitadas são folhas duras ou caídas nos campos,
E formigas marrons nos pequenos poços abaixo deles,
E migalhas musgosas da cerca do verme, pedras empilhadas, ancinho, verbasco e.
Como eu poderia responder a criança? Eu não sei o que é mais do que ele.
Um presente perfumado e um lembrete projetado
Portando o nome do dono de alguma forma nos cantos, para que possamos ver.
e observe, e diga De quem?
E isso significa, brotando tanto em amplas zonas e zonas estreitas,
Crescendo entre negros como entre brancos,
Kanuck, Tuckahoe, congressista, Cuff, eu dou a eles o mesmo, eu
recebê-los o mesmo.
Pode ser que você transpire dos seios de homens jovens,
Pode ser que se eu os conhecesse eu os amaria,
Pode ser que você seja de pessoas idosas ou de filhos levados em breve.
dos colos de suas mães,
E aqui estão as voltas das mães.
Mais escuras do que as barbas incolores dos velhos,
Escuro para sair de baixo dos telhados vermelhos das bocas.
E percebo que eles não vêm dos tetos das bocas por nada.
E as dicas sobre homens e mães idosos, e a prole tomada.
logo fora de suas voltas.
E o que você acha que se tornou das mulheres e crianças?
O menor broto mostra que realmente não há morte
E se alguma vez houve levou vida, e não espera no.
fim de prendê-lo,
E ceas'd o momento em que a vida apareceria.
E morrer é diferente do que qualquer um supõe e tem mais sorte.
Eu apresso-me a informá-lo que tem a mesma sorte de morrer, e eu sei disso.
não estou contido entre o meu chapéu e botas,
E folhear objetos múltiplos, não dois iguais e todos bons,
A terra é boa e as estrelas são boas, e seus adjuntos são todos bons.
Eu sou o companheiro e companheiro de pessoas, tudo tão imortal e.
insondável como eu mesmo
(Eles não sabem como é imortal, mas eu sei.)
Para mim aqueles que foram meninos e que amam mulheres,
Para mim, o homem que se orgulha e sente como se magoa,
Para mim o doce coração e a velha empregada, para mim mães e os.
mães de mães,
Para mim lábios que sorriam, olhos que derramaram lágrimas,
Para mim, filhos e geradores de filhos.
Eu vejo através do pano largo e do guingão se ou não,
E estou por perto, tenaz, aquisitivo, incansável e não posso ser abalado.
Eu levanto a gaze e olho por um longo tempo, e silenciosamente afastei as moscas.
Eu peeringly os vejo do topo.
Eu testemunho o cadáver com seu cabelo enrolado, noto onde a pistola.
O pesado ônibus, o motorista com seu polegar interrogatório, o.
o barulho dos cavalos no chão de granito
Os trenós de neve, tinidos, gritos, peles de bolas de neve,
Os hurrahs de favoritos populares, a fúria de mobs
A aba da maca da cortina, um homem doente carregado para o hospital,
O encontro de inimigos, o juramento repentino, os golpes e a queda,
A multidão excitada, o policial com sua estrela rapidamente trabalhando a dele.
passagem para o centro da multidão,
As pedras impassíveis que recebem e devolvem tantos ecos,
Que gemidos de over-fed ou half-starv'd que caem sunstruck ou em ataques,
Que exclamações de mulheres levadas de repente que se apressam para casa e.
dê à luz bebês,
Que fala viva e enterrada está sempre vibrando aqui, o que uiva.
contido pelo decoro,
Detenção de criminosos, ofensas, ofertas adúlteras feitas, aceitações,
rejeições com lábios convexos,
Eu me importo com eles ou com o show ou a ressonância deles - eu venho e parti.
A grama seca do tempo de colheita carrega o vagão lento,
A luz clara toca no cinza marrom e verde intertidos,
As braçadas estão cheias do corte da queda.
Eu senti seus choques moles, uma perna reclinada na outra
Eu pulo das vigas e agarro o trevo e o timothy,
E role de ponta-cabeça e enrole meu cabelo cheio de mechas.
Vagando espantado com a minha própria leveza e alegria,
No final da tarde, escolhendo um local seguro para passar a noite,
Acendendo um fogo e assando o jogo recém-matado,
Adormecer nas folhas recolhidas com meu cachorro e arma ao meu lado.
Meus olhos assentam a terra, eu me inclino na proa ou grito alegremente do convés.
Eu coloquei minhas sandálias nas minhas botas e fui e me diverti;
Você deveria ter estado conosco naquele dia em volta da caldeira de chowder.
a noiva era uma menina vermelha
Seu pai e seus amigos sentaram-se perto de fumar de pernas cruzadas e
eles tinham mocassins em pé e grandes cobertores grossos.
pendurado em seus ombros,
Em um banco, o caçador, ele estava drogado principalmente em peles, sua luxuriante.
barba e cachos protegiam o pescoço, ele segurava a noiva pela mão,
Ela tinha longos cílios, a cabeça estava nua, as mechas grossas e retas.
desceu sobre seus membros voluptuosos e alcançou seus pés.
Eu ouvi seus movimentos quebrando os galhos da pilha de lenha,
Através da meia porta da cozinha, eu o vi nervoso e fraco,
E foi onde ele se sentou em um tronco e o guiou e lhe assegurou,
E trouxe água e encheu uma banheira para seu corpo suado e pés machucados,
E deu-lhe um quarto que entrou no meu e deu-lhe um pouco.
roupa limpa grosseira,
E lembre-se perfeitamente bem de seus olhos revolvidos e sua falta de jeito
E lembre-se de colocar piasters nas pernas do pescoço e dos tornozelos;
Ele ficou comigo uma semana antes de se recuperar e passar para o norte,
Eu o fiz sentar ao meu lado na mesa, minha maçaneta de incêndio encostada no canto.
Vinte e oito jovens e todos tão amigáveis;
Vinte e oito anos de vida feminina e tudo tão solitário.
Ela se esconde bonita e ricamente abafada pelas persianas da janela.
Ah, o mais caseiro deles é lindo para ela.
Você borrifa na água lá, ainda fica estoque ainda em seu quarto.
O resto não a viu, mas ela os viu e os amou.
Pequenos riachos passavam por todo o corpo deles.
Ele desceu tremulamente de seus templos e costelas.
sol, eles não perguntam quem se agarra rápido a eles,
Eles não sabem quem puffs e declina com pingente e arco de flexão,
Eles não pensam quem eles usam com spray.
na barraca no mercado,
Eu perambulo aproveitando sua réplica e seu embaralhamento e desmembramento.
Cada um tem seu trenó principal, eles estão todos fora, há um grande calor dentro
O ágil de suas cinturas joga mesmo com seus braços maciços,
Overhand os martelos balançar, overhand tão lento, overhand tão certo,
Eles não se apressam, cada homem bate em seu lugar.
embaixo de sua corrente amarrada,
O negro que dirige a longa roda do pátio de pedra, firme e firme.
alto ele está parado em uma perna na corda,
Sua camisa azul expõe seu amplo pescoço e peito e solta mais.
Seu olhar é calmo e imponente, ele joga a aba do chapéu.
longe de sua testa,
O sol cai em seu cabelo crespo e bigode, cai no preto de.
seus membros polidos e perfeitos.
Eu também vou com a equipe.
Para nichos à parte e junior bending, não uma pessoa ou objeto em falta,
Absorvendo tudo para mim e para esta música.
é que você expressa em seus olhos?
Parece-me mais que toda a impressão que li em minha vida.
Eles se levantam juntos, eles lentamente circulam ao redor.
E reconhecer vermelho, amarelo, branco, jogando dentro de mim,
E considere verde e violeta e a coroa tufada intencional,
E não chame a tartaruga indigna porque ela não é outra coisa,
E o bosque nunca estudou a gama, ainda que trate muito bem para mim,
E o olhar da égua da baía envergonha minha tolice.
Ya-honk ele diz, e soa para mim como um convite,
O atrevido pode supor que não tem sentido, mas eu escuto perto,
Encontre seu propósito e coloque lá em cima em direção ao céu invernal.
chickadee, o cão da pradaria,
A ninhada da porca grunhida enquanto puxam suas tetas,
A ninhada da galinha de peru e ela com suas asas meio espalhadas,
Eu vejo nelas e em mim a mesma velha lei.
Eles desprezam o melhor que posso para relacioná-los.
Dos homens que vivem entre o gado ou o gosto do oceano ou da floresta,
Dos construtores e diretores de navios e os manejadores de machados e.
mauls e os condutores de cavalos,
Eu posso comer e dormir com eles semana após semana.
Eu indo em minhas chances, gastando por vastos retornos,
Adornando-me para me dar o primeiro que me levará,
Não pedindo ao céu para descer para a minha boa vontade,
Dispersando livremente para sempre.
O carpinteiro veste sua prancha, a língua do seu anteparo.
assobia sua língua ascendente selvagem,
Os filhos casados ​​e solteiros voltam para casa para o jantar de Ação de Graças,
O piloto pega o pino-rei, ele abaixa com um braço forte,
O companheiro está de pé no baleia, lança e arpão estão prontos,
O atirador de pato caminha por trechos silenciosos e cautelosos,
Os diáconos são ordenados com as mãos cruzadas no altar,
A fiação recua e avança para o zumbido da roda grande,
O fazendeiro para nas barras enquanto caminha no primeiro dia e no chão.
olha para a aveia e centeio,
O lunático é levado por fim ao asilo como um caso confirmado,
(Ele nunca mais vai dormir como no berço da mãe dele).
A impressora do jornal com cabeça cinzenta e mandíbulas magras trabalha no seu caso,
Ele se livra de tabaco enquanto seus olhos brilham com o manuscrito;
Os membros malformados estão amarrados à mesa do cirurgião,
O que é removido cai horrivelmente em um balde;
A garota quadrada é vendida no leilão, o bêbado concorda.
o fogão da sala de bar,
O maquinista arregaça as mangas, o policial viaja a sua batida,
as marcas do porteiro que passam,
O jovem dirige o vagão expresso (eu o amo, embora eu o faça).
As correias do mestiço nas botas leves para competir na corrida,
O tiroteio ocidental dos perus atrai velhos e jovens, alguns se inclinam sobre eles.
rifles, alguns sentam em toras,
Saindo da multidão, caminha o atirador, toma sua posição, nivela sua peça;
Os grupos de imigrantes recém-chegados cobrem o cais ou dique,
Como as patas de lã enxameavam no campo de açúcar, o superintendente as vê.
da sela dele
A corneta chama no salão de baile, os cavalheiros correm para o seu.
parceiros, os dançarinos se curvam,
A juventude jaz acordada no sótão do telhado de cedro e toca no.
O Wolverine põe armadilhas no riacho que ajuda a encher o Huron,
O squaw envolto em seu pano amarelo está oferecendo mocassins e.
sacos de pérolas para venda,
O conhecedor olha ao longo da galeria de exposições com metade do corpo fechado.
olhos curvados para os lados
Quando as mãos do convés aceleram o barco a vapor, a prancha é lançada.
os passageiros em terra,
A jovem irmã segura a meada enquanto a irmã mais velha a enrola.
fora em uma bola, e pára de vez em quando para os nós,
A esposa de um ano está se recuperando e feliz tendo uma semana passada.
seu primeiro filho
A garota ianque de cabelos limpos trabalha com sua máquina de costura ou no.
fábrica ou moinho,
O homem da calçada se apoia em seu compactador de duas mãos, o líder do repórter.
voa rapidamente sobre o livro de notas, o pintor de sinais está a rotular.
com azul e dourado
O menino do canal trota no caminho de reboque, o guarda-livros conta com o seu.
escrivaninha, o sapateiro enrola seu fio,
O maestro bate o tempo para a banda e todos os artistas o seguem,
A criança é batizada, o convertido está fazendo suas primeiras profissões,
A regata é espalhada na baía, a corrida é iniciada, (como o branco.
O tropeiro assistindo seu dirigido canta para eles que se desviariam,
O pedler sua com sua mochila nas costas, (o comprador desordenado.
sobre o centavo estranho;)
A noiva não enrola o vestido branco, o ponteiro dos minutos do relógio.
O comedor de ópio se reclina com a cabeça rígida e os lábios abertos,
A prostituta arrasta seu xale, seu gorro balança sobre ela embriagado e.
A multidão ri de seus juramentos de guarda, os homens zombam e piscam para.
(Miserável! Eu não rio de seus juramentos nem zombar de você;)
O presidente que ocupa um conselho de gabinete é cercado pelos grandes.
Na praça, três matronas imponentes e amistosas com braços entrelaçados.
A tripulação do bando de peixe repetiu camadas de alabote no porão,
O Missourian cruza as planícies carregando suas mercadorias e seu gado,
Quando o colecionador de passagens passa pelo trem, ele avisa pelo.
tilintar de mudanças frouxas,
Os homens do chão estão colocando o chão, os estanhados estão estanhando o chão.
telhado, os pedreiros estão pedindo argamassa,
Em arquivo único, cada um deles levava sua mão aos operários;
Estações perseguindo umas às outras a multidão indescritível é reunida.
é o quarto do sétimo mês, (que saudações de canhão e armas pequenas!)
Estações perseguindo umas às outras os arados mais resistentes, a segadeira corta,
e o grão de inverno cai no chão;
Nos lagos, o pescador vigia e espera no buraco.
a superfície congelada,
Os cotos ficam grossos ao redor da clareira, o invasor ataca profundamente.
Flatboatmen fazem rápido em direção ao anoitecer perto do algodão-madeira ou pecan-trees,
Os caçadores de coon atravessam as regiões do rio Vermelho ou atravessam.
aqueles drenados pelo Tennessee, ou pelos do Arkansas,
Tochas brilham no escuro que paira sobre o Chattahooche ou Altamahaw,
Patriarcas sentam-se no jantar com filhos, netos e bisnetos.
Em paredes de adobe, em tendas de lona, ​​caçadores de descanso e caçadores depois.
o esporte do dia deles
A cidade dorme e o país dorme
O sono vivo pelo tempo deles, os mortos dormem pelo tempo deles,
O velho marido dorme por sua esposa e o jovem marido dorme junto a sua esposa;
E estes tendem para dentro de mim, e eu tendem para fora para eles,
E como é ser desses mais ou menos eu sou,
E destes e todos eu tecer a canção de mim mesmo.
Independentemente dos outros, sempre respeitoso com os outros,
Materna e paterna, criança e homem
Coisas com o material que é grosso e coisas com as coisas.
Um dos Nação de muitas nações, o menor o mesmo e o.
maior o mesmo,
Um sulista logo como um nortista, um plantador indiferente e.
hospitaleiro pelo Oconee eu vivo,
Um ianque ligava o meu próprio caminho pronto para o comércio, minhas articulações eram as mais simples.
articulações na terra e as articulações mais severas na terra,
Um Kentuckian andando pelo vale dos Elkhorn na minha pele de cervo.
leggings, um Louisianian ou georgiano,
Um barqueiro sobre lagos ou baías ou ao longo das costas, um Hoosier, Badger, Buckeye;
Em casa, com sapatos de neve Kanadian ou no mato, ou com os pescadores.
Em casa, na frota de barcos de gelo, velejando com o resto e atacando,
Em casa nas colinas de Vermont ou nos bosques do Maine, ou no.
Camarada dos Californianos, camarada dos ocidentais livres do Norte, (amando.
suas grandes proporções)
Camarada de jangadas e carvoeiros, camarada de todos que apertam as mãos.
e bem-vindo a beber e carne,
Um aprendiz com o mais simples, um professor do mais pensativo,
Um principiante que está começando a experienciar miríades de estações,
De cada matiz e casta sou eu, de todo posto e religião,
Um agricultor, mecânico, artista, cavalheiro, marinheiro, quaker,
Prisioneiro, homem de fantasia, barulhento, advogado, médico, padre.
Respire o ar mas deixe a abundância atrás de mim
E não estou preso e estou no meu lugar.
Os sóis brilhantes que vejo e os sóis escuros que não posso ver estão em seu lugar,
O palpável está em seu lugar e o impalpável está em seu lugar.)
não são originais comigo
Se eles não são seus tanto quanto meus eles não são nada, ou quase nada,
Se eles não são o enigma e a desvinculação do enigma, eles não são nada,
Se eles não estão tão próximos quanto estão distantes, não são nada.
Este é o ar comum que banha o globo.
Eu não jogo marchas apenas para vencedores aceitos, eu faço passeatas.
conquistou e matou pessoas.
Eu também digo que é bom cair, batalhas são perdidas no mesmo espírito.
em que eles são ganhos.
Eu sopro através dos meus encaixes meu mais alto e mais alegre para eles.
E para aqueles cujos navios de guerra afundaram no mar!
E para aqueles que afundaram no mar!
E para todos os generais que perderam compromissos e todos superaram heróis!
E os incontáveis ​​heróis desconhecidos são iguais aos maiores heróis conhecidos!
É para os ímpios exatamente como os justos, eu faço compromissos.
Eu não vou ter uma única pessoa desprezada ou deixada de lado,
A mulher, esponja e ladrão é convidada,
O escravo pesado é convidado, a venerealee é convidada;
Não haverá diferença entre eles e o resto.
Esse é o toque dos meus lábios nos seus, esse o murmúrio de saudade,
Essa profundidade e altura distantes refletem meu próprio rosto,
Essa é a mescla pensativa de mim mesmo e a saída novamente.
Bem, eu tenho, para os chuveiros de quatro meses, e a mica no.
lado de uma rocha tem.
A luz do dia surpreende? faz o twitter inicial do redstart.
através da floresta?
Eu surpreendo mais do que eles?
Eu posso não contar a todos, mas vou te contar.
Como é que extraio a força da carne que como?
Mais tempo foi perdido me ouvindo.
Esses meses são vácuos e o chão, mas chafurda e sujeira.
vai para o quarto-removido,
Eu uso meu chapéu como quiser dentro ou fora.
médicos e calculado perto,
Não encontro gordura mais doce do que paus nos meus próprios ossos.
E o bom ou o mal eu digo de mim mesmo eu digo deles.
Para mim, os objetos convergentes do universo fluem perpetuamente,
Todos estão escritos para mim e eu preciso entender o que a escrita significa.
Eu sei que esta minha órbita não pode ser varrida pela bússola de um carpinteiro,
Eu sei que não passarei como um carlacue de criança cortado com um queimado.
Eu não incomodo o meu espírito para se justificar ou ser entendido,
Eu vejo que as leis elementares nunca pedem desculpas,
(Eu acho que não me comporto mais do que o nível em que planto minha casa,
Se nenhum outro no mundo estiver ciente, eu me sentirei contente,
E se todos e cada um estiverem conscientes, sento-me contente.
E se eu chego ao meu dia de hoje ou em dez mil ou dez.
Eu posso alegremente aceitar isso agora, ou com a mesma alegria que posso esperar.
Eu rio do que você chama de dissolução,
E eu conheço a amplitude do tempo.
Os prazeres do céu estão comigo e as dores do inferno estão comigo,
O primeiro eu enxerto e aumento em mim, o último eu traduzo.
em nova língua.
E eu digo que é tão bom ser mulher quanto ser homem
E eu digo que não há nada maior que a mãe dos homens.
Nós nos esquivamos e depreciamos o suficiente
Eu mostro que tamanho é apenas desenvolvimento.
É uma ninharia, eles vão mais do que chegar lá cada um, e.
Eu chamo a terra e o mar pela metade à noite.
Noite dos ventos do sul - noite das grandes poucas estrelas!
Ainda acenando noite - noite de verão nua e louca.
Terra das árvores adormecidas e líquidas!
Terra do por do sol partido - terra das montanhas enevoadas-topt!
Terra do vítreo derramar da lua cheia apenas tingida de azul!
Terra de brilho e manchas escuras na maré do rio!
Terra do cinza límpido das nuvens mais brilhante e claro por minha causa!
Terra com cotoveladas remotas - terra rica de flores de maçã!
Sorria, para o seu amor vem.
O amor apaixonado indescritível.
Eu vejo da praia seus dedos tortos,
Eu acredito que você se recusa a voltar sem me sentir,
Devemos ter uma volta juntos, eu me despir, me apressar fora da vista da terra,
Almofada me suave, me balançar na sonolenta,
Me arremesse com amorosa molhada, eu posso te pagar.
O mar respira respirações amplas e convulsivas
Mar da salmoura da vida e de sepulturas ainda não preparadas,
Uivador e scooper de tempestades, mar caprichoso e delicado,
Eu sou integral com você, eu também sou de uma fase e de todas as fases.
Extendedor de amies e aqueles que dormem nos braços um do outro.
(Devo fazer minha lista de coisas na casa e pular a casa que.
da maldade também.
O mal me impulsiona e a reforma do mal me impulsiona, fico indiferente,
A minha marcha não é a marcha do descobridor de defeitos ou do rejetor,
Eu umedecer as raízes de tudo que cresceu.
Você adivinhou que as leis celestiais ainda não foram trabalhadas e corrigidas?
Doutrina suave como ajuda constante como doutrina estável,
Pensamentos e ações do presente nosso despertar e começar cedo.
Não há melhor do que isso e agora.
A maravilha é sempre e sempre como pode haver um homem mau ou um infiel.
E a minha uma palavra do moderno, a palavra En-Masse.
Aqui ou daqui para frente é tudo a mesma coisa para mim, eu aceito o tempo absolutamente.
Só essa maravilha desconcertante mística completa tudo.
Materialismo primeiro e último imbuindo.
Buscar stonecrop mixt com cedro e ramos de lilás,
Este é o lexicógrafo, este químico, isso fez uma gramática de.
os velhos cartuchos
Esses marinheiros colocam o navio em perigosos mares desconhecidos.
Este é o geólogo, isso funciona com o scalper, e isso é um.
Seus fatos são úteis, e eles não são minha morada,
Eu, mas entrei por eles em uma área da minha morada.
E mais os lembretes da vida incontável, e da liberdade e extração,
E faça contas curtas de neutras e castrados, e favorece os homens e.
as mulheres se equipam totalmente,
E bater o gongo da revolta e parar com fugitivos e eles que.
plot and conspire.
Turbulent, fleshy, sensual, eating, drinking and breeding,
No sentimentalist, no stander above men and women or apart from them,
No more modest than immodest.
Unscrew the doors themselves from their jambs!
And whatever is done or said returns at last to me.
By God! I will accept nothing which all cannot have their.
counterpart of on the same terms.
Voices of the interminable generations of prisoners and slaves,
Voices of the diseas'd and despairing and of thieves and dwarfs,
Voices of cycles of preparation and accretion,
And of the threads that connect the stars, and of wombs and of the.
And of the rights of them the others are down upon,
Of the deform'd, trivial, flat, foolish, despised,
Fog in the air, beetles rolling balls of dung.
Voices of sexes and lusts, voices veil'd and I remove the veil,
Voices indecent by me clarified and transfigur'd.
I keep as delicate around the bowels as around the head and heart,
Copulation is no more rank to me than death is.
Seeing, hearing, feeling, are miracles, and each part and tag of me.
The scent of these arm-pits aroma finer than prayer,
This head more than churches, bibles, and all the creeds.
my own body, or any part of it,
Translucent mould of me it shall be you!
Shaded ledges and rests it shall be you!
Firm masculine colter it shall be you!
Whatever goes to the tilth of me it shall be you!
You my rich blood! your milky stream pale strippings of my life!
Breast that presses against other breasts it shall be you!
My brain it shall be your occult convolutions!
Root of wash'd sweet-flag! timorous pond-snipe! nest of guarded.
duplicate eggs! it shall be you!
Mix'd tussled hay of head, beard, brawn, it shall be you!
Trickling sap of maple, fibre of manly wheat, it shall be you!
Sun so generous it shall be you!
Vapors lighting and shading my face it shall be you!
You sweaty brooks and dews it shall be you!
Winds whose soft-tickling genitals rub against me it shall be you!
Broad muscular fields, branches of live oak, loving lounger in my.
winding paths, it shall be you!
Hands I have taken, face I have kiss'd, mortal I have ever touch'd,
it shall be you.
Each moment and whatever happens thrills me with joy,
I cannot tell how my ankles bend, nor whence the cause of my faintest wish,
Nor the cause of the friendship I emit, nor the cause of the.
friendship I take again.
A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics.
The little light fades the immense and diaphanous shadows,
The air tastes good to my palate.
Scooting obliquely high and low.
Seas of bright juice suffuse heaven.
The heav'd challenge from the east that moment over my head,
The mocking taunt, See then whether you shall be master!
If I could not now and always send sun-rise out of me.
We found our own O my soul in the calm and cool of the daybreak.
With the twirl of my tongue I encompass worlds and volumes of worlds.
It provokes me forever, it says sarcastically,
Walt you contain enough, why don't you let it out then?
Do you not know O speech how the buds beneath you are folded?
Waiting in gloom, protected by frost,
The dirt receding before my prophetical screams,
I underlying causes to balance them at last,
My knowledge my live parts, it keeping tally with the meaning of all things,
Happiness, (which whoever hears me let him or her set out in search.
Encompass worlds, but never try to encompass me,
I crowd your sleekest and best by simply looking toward you.
I carry the plenum of proof and every thing else in my face,
With the hush of my lips I wholly confound the skeptic.
To accrue what I hear into this song, to let sounds contribute toward it.
clack of sticks cooking my meals,
I hear the sound I love, the sound of the human voice,
I hear all sounds running together, combined, fused or following,
Sounds of the city and sounds out of the city, sounds of the day and night,
Talkative young ones to those that like them, the loud laugh of.
work-people at their meals,
The angry base of disjointed friendship, the faint tones of the sick,
The judge with hands tight to the desk, his pallid lips pronouncing.
The heave'e'yo of stevedores unlading ships by the wharves, the.
refrain of the anchor-lifters,
The ring of alarm-bells, the cry of fire, the whirr of swift-streaking.
engines and hose-carts with premonitory tinkles and color'd lights,
The steam-whistle, the solid roll of the train of approaching cars,
The slow march play'd at the head of the association marching two and two,
(They go to guard some corpse, the flag-tops are draped with black muslin.)
I hear the key'd cornet, it glides quickly in through my ears,
It shakes mad-sweet pangs through my belly and breast.
Ah this indeed is music--this suits me.
The orbic flex of his mouth is pouring and filling me full.
The orchestra whirls me wider than Uranus flies,
It wrenches such ardors from me I did not know I possess'd them,
It sails me, I dab with bare feet, they are lick'd by the indolent waves,
I am cut by bitter and angry hail, I lose my breath,
Steep'd amid honey'd morphine, my windpipe throttled in fakes of death,
At length let up again to feel the puzzle of puzzles,
And that we call Being.
(Round and round we go, all of us, and ever come back thither,)
If nothing lay more develop'd the quahaug in its callous shell were enough.
I have instant conductors all over me whether I pass or stop,
They seize every object and lead it harmlessly through me.
To touch my person to some one else's is about as much as I can stand.
Flames and ether making a rush for my veins,
Treacherous tip of me reaching and crowding to help them,
My flesh and blood playing out lightning to strike what is hardly.
different from myself,
On all sides prurient provokers stiffening my limbs,
Straining the udder of my heart for its withheld drip,
Behaving licentious toward me, taking no denial,
Depriving me of my best as for a purpose,
Unbuttoning my clothes, holding me by the bare waist,
Deluding my confusion with the calm of the sunlight and pasture-fields,
Immodestly sliding the fellow-senses away,
They bribed to swap off with touch and go and graze at the edges of me,
No consideration, no regard for my draining strength or my anger,
Fetching the rest of the herd around to enjoy them a while,
Then all uniting to stand on a headland and worry me.
They have left me helpless to a red marauder,
They all come to the headland to witness and assist against me.
I talk wildly, I have lost my wits, I and nobody else am the.
I went myself first to the headland, my own hands carried me there.
Unclench your floodgates, you are too much for me.
Did it make you ache so, leaving me?
Rich showering rain, and recompense richer afterward.
Landscapes projected masculine, full-sized and golden.
They neither hasten their own delivery nor resist it,
They do not need the obstetric forceps of the surgeon,
The insignificant is as big to me as any,
(What is less or more than a touch?)
The damp of the night drives deeper into my soul.
Only what nobody denies is so.)
I believe the soggy clods shall become lovers and lamps,
And a compend of compends is the meat of a man or woman,
And a summit and flower there is the feeling they have for each other,
And they are to branch boundlessly out of that lesson until it.
And until one and all shall delight us, and we them.
And the pismire is equally perfect, and a grain of sand, and the egg.
And the tree-toad is a chef-d'oeuvre for the highest,
And the running blackberry would adorn the parlors of heaven,
And the narrowest hinge in my hand puts to scorn all machinery,
And the cow crunching with depress'd head surpasses any statue,
And a mouse is miracle enough to stagger sextillions of infidels.
grains, esculent roots,
And am stucco'd with quadrupeds and birds all over,
And have distanced what is behind me for good reasons,
But call any thing back again when I desire it.
In vain the plutonic rocks send their old heat against my approach,
In vain the mastodon retreats beneath its own powder'd bones,
In vain objects stand leagues off and assume manifold shapes,
In vain the ocean settling in hollows and the great monsters lying low,
In vain the buzzard houses herself with the sky,
In vain the snake slides through the creepers and logs,
In vain the elk takes to the inner passes of the woods,
In vain the razor-bill'd auk sails far north to Labrador,
I follow quickly, I ascend to the nest in the fissure of the cliff.
I stand and look at them long and long.
They do not lie awake in the dark and weep for their sins,
They do not make me sick discussing their duty to God,
Not one is dissatisfied, not one is demented with the mania of.
Not one kneels to another, nor to his kind that lived thousands of.
Not one is respectable or unhappy over the whole earth.
They bring me tokens of myself, they evince them plainly in their.
Did I pass that way huge times ago and negligently drop them?
Gathering and showing more always and with velocity,
Infinite and omnigenous, and the like of these among them,
Not too exclusive toward the reachers of my remembrancers,
Picking out here one that I love, and now go with him on brotherly terms.
Head high in the forehead, wide between the ears,
Limbs glossy and supple, tail dusting the ground,
Eyes full of sparkling wickedness, ears finely cut, flexibly moving.
His well-built limbs tremble with pleasure as we race around and return.
Why do I need your paces when I myself out-gallop them?
Even as I stand or sit passing faster than you.
What I guess'd when I loaf'd on the grass,
What I guess'd while I lay alone in my bed,
And again as I walk'd the beach under the paling stars of the morning.
I skirt sierras, my palms cover continents,
I am afoot with my vision.
Along the ruts of the turnpike, along the dry gulch and rivulet bed,
Weeding my onion-patch or hosing rows of carrots and parsnips,
crossing savannas, trailing in forests,
Prospecting, gold-digging, girdling the trees of a new purchase,
Scorch'd ankle-deep by the hot sand, hauling my boat down the.
Where the panther walks to and fro on a limb overhead, where the.
buck turns furiously at the hunter,
Where the rattlesnake suns his flabby length on a rock, where the.
otter is feeding on fish,
Where the alligator in his tough pimples sleeps by the bayou,
Where the black bear is searching for roots or honey, where the.
beaver pats the mud with his paddle-shaped tall;
Over the growing sugar, over the yellow-flower'd cotton plant, over.
the rice in its low moist field,
Over the sharp-peak'd farm house, with its scallop'd scum and.
slender shoots from the gutters,
Over the western persimmon, over the long-leav'd corn, over the.
delicate blue-flower flax,
Over the white and brown buckwheat, a hummer and buzzer there with.
Over the dusky green of the rye as it ripples and shades in the breeze;
Scaling mountains, pulling myself cautiously up, holding on by low.
Walking the path worn in the grass and beat through the leaves of the brush,
Where the quail is whistling betwixt the woods and the wheat-lot,
Where the bat flies in the Seventh-month eve, where the great.
goldbug drops through the dark,
Where the brook puts out of the roots of the old tree and flows to.
Where cattle stand and shake away flies with the tremulous.
shuddering of their hides,
Where the cheese-cloth hangs in the kitchen, where andirons straddle.
the hearth-slab, where cobwebs fall in festoons from the rafters;
Where trip-hammers crash, where the press is whirling its cylinders,
Wherever the human heart beats with terrible throes under its ribs,
Where the pear-shaped balloon is floating aloft, (floating in it.
myself and looking composedly down,)
Where the life-car is drawn on the slip-noose, where the heat.
hatches pale-green eggs in the dented sand,
Where the she-whale swims with her calf and never forsakes it,
Where the steam-ship trails hind-ways its long pennant of smoke,
Where the fin of the shark cuts like a black chip out of the water,
Where the half-burn'd brig is riding on unknown currents,
Where shells grow to her slimy deck, where the dead are corrupting below;
Where the dense-starr'd flag is borne at the head of the regiments,
Approaching Manhattan up by the long-stretching island,
Under Niagara, the cataract falling like a veil over my countenance,
Upon a door-step, upon the horse-block of hard wood outside,
Upon the race-course, or enjoying picnics or jigs or a good game of.
At he-festivals, with blackguard gibes, ironical license,
bull-dances, drinking, laughter,
At the cider-mill tasting the sweets of the brown mash, sucking the.
juice through a straw,
At apple-peelings wanting kisses for all the red fruit I find,
At musters, beach-parties, friendly bees, huskings, house-raisings;
Where the mocking-bird sounds his delicious gurgles, cackles,
Where the hay-rick stands in the barn-yard, where the dry-stalks are.
scatter'd, where the brood-cow waits in the hovel,
Where the bull advances to do his masculine work, where the stud to.
the mare, where the cock is treading the hen,
Where the heifers browse, where geese nip their food with short jerks,
Where sun-down shadows lengthen over the limitless and lonesome prairie,
Where herds of buffalo make a crawling spread of the square miles.
Where the humming-bird shimmers, where the neck of the long-lived.
swan is curving and winding,
Where the laughing-gull scoots by the shore, where she laughs her.
Where bee-hives range on a gray bench in the garden half hid by the.
Where band-neck'd partridges roost in a ring on the ground with.
their heads out,
Where burial coaches enter the arch'd gates of a cemetery,
Where winter wolves bark amid wastes of snow and icicled trees,
Where the yellow-crown'd heron comes to the edge of the marsh at.
night and feeds upon small crabs,
Where the splash of swimmers and divers cools the warm noon,
Where the katy-did works her chromatic reed on the walnut-tree over.
Through patches of citrons and cucumbers with silver-wired leaves,
Through the salt-lick or orange glade, or under conical firs,
Through the gymnasium, through the curtain'd saloon, through the.
office or public hall;
Pleas'd with the native and pleas'd with the foreign, pleas'd with.
the new and old,
Pleas'd with the homely woman as well as the handsome,
Pleas'd with the quakeress as she puts off her bonnet and talks melodiously,
Pleas'd with the tune of the choir of the whitewash'd church,
Pleas'd with the earnest words of the sweating Methodist preacher,
impress'd seriously at the camp-meeting;
Looking in at the shop-windows of Broadway the whole forenoon,
flatting the flesh of my nose on the thick plate glass,
Wandering the same afternoon with my face turn'd up to the clouds,
or down a lane or along the beach,
My right and left arms round the sides of two friends, and I in the middle;
Coming home with the silent and dark-cheek'd bush-boy, (behind me.
he rides at the drape of the day,)
Far from the settlements studying the print of animals' feet, or the.
By the cot in the hospital reaching lemonade to a feverish patient,
Nigh the coffin'd corpse when all is still, examining with a candle;
Voyaging to every port to dicker and adventure,
Hurrying with the modern crowd as eager and fickle as any,
Hot toward one I hate, ready in my madness to knife him,
Solitary at midnight in my back yard, my thoughts gone from me a long while,
Walking the old hills of Judaea with the beautiful gentle God by my side,
Speeding through space, speeding through heaven and the stars,
Speeding amid the seven satellites and the broad ring, and the.
diameter of eighty thousand miles,
Speeding with tail'd meteors, throwing fire-balls like the rest,
Carrying the crescent child that carries its own full mother in its belly,
Storming, enjoying, planning, loving, cautioning,
Backing and filling, appearing and disappearing,
I tread day and night such roads.
And look at quintillions ripen'd and look at quintillions green.
My course runs below the soundings of plummets.
No guard can shut me off, no law prevent me.
My messengers continually cruise away or bring their returns to me.
pike-pointed staff, clinging to topples of brittle and blue.
I take my place late at night in the crow's-nest,
We sail the arctic sea, it is plenty light enough,
Through the clear atmosphere I stretch around on the wonderful beauty,
The enormous masses of ice pass me and I pass them, the scenery is.
plain in all directions,
The white-topt mountains show in the distance, I fling out my.
fancies toward them,
We are approaching some great battle-field in which we are soon to.
We pass the colossal outposts of the encampment, we pass with still.
feet and caution,
Or we are entering by the suburbs some vast and ruin'd city,
The blocks and fallen architecture more than all the living cities.
I turn the bridgroom out of bed and stay with the bride myself,
I tighten her all night to my thighs and lips.
They fetch my man's body up dripping and drown'd.
The courage of present times and all times,
How the skipper saw the crowded and rudderless wreck of the.
steamship, and Death chasing it up and down the storm,
How he knuckled tight and gave not back an inch, and was faithful of.
days and faithful of nights,
And chalk'd in large letters on a board, Be of good cheer, we will.
How he follow'd with them and tack'd with them three days and.
would not give it up,
How he saved the drifting company at last,
How the lank loose-gown'd women look'd when boated from the.
side of their prepared graves,
How the silent old-faced infants and the lifted sick, and the.
sharp-lipp'd unshaved men;
All this I swallow, it tastes good, I like it well, it becomes mine,
I am the man, I suffer'd, I was there.
The mother of old, condemn'd for a witch, burnt with dry wood, her.
children gazing on,
The hounded slave that flags in the race, leans by the fence,
blowing, cover'd with sweat,
The twinges that sting like needles his legs and neck, the murderous.
buckshot and the bullets,
All these I feel or am.
Hell and despair are upon me, crack and again crack the marksmen,
I clutch the rails of the fence, my gore dribs, thinn'd with the.
ooze of my skin,
I fall on the weeds and stones,
The riders spur their unwilling horses, haul close,
Taunt my dizzy ears and beat me violently over the head with whip-stocks.
I do not ask the wounded person how he feels, I myself become the.
My hurts turn livid upon me as I lean on a cane and observe.
Tumbling walls buried me in their debris,
Heat and smoke I inspired, I heard the yelling shouts of my comrades,
I heard the distant click of their picks and shovels,
They have clear'd the beams away, they tenderly lift me forth.
Painless after all I lie exhausted but not so unhappy,
White and beautiful are the faces around me, the heads are bared.
of their fire-caps,
The kneeling crowd fades with the light of the torches.
They show as the dial or move as the hands of me, I am the clock myself.
I am there again.
Again the attacking cannon, mortars,
Again to my listening ears the cannon responsive.
The cries, curses, roar, the plaudits for well-aim'd shots,
The ambulanza slowly passing trailing its red drip,
Workmen searching after damages, making indispensable repairs,
The fall of grenades through the rent roof, the fan-shaped explosion,
The whizz of limbs, heads, stone, wood, iron, high in the air.
He gasps through the clot Mind not me--mind--the entrenchments.
(I tell not the fall of Alamo,
Not one escaped to tell the fall of Alamo,
The hundred and fifty are dumb yet at Alamo,)
'Tis the tale of the murder in cold blood of four hundred and twelve.
Nine hundred lives out of the surrounding enemies, nine times their.
number, was the price they took in advance,
Their colonel was wounded and their ammunition gone,
They treated for an honorable capitulation, receiv'd writing and.
seal, gave up their arms and march'd back prisoners of war.
Matchless with horse, rifle, song, supper, courtship,
Large, turbulent, generous, handsome, proud, and affectionate,
Bearded, sunburnt, drest in the free costume of hunters,
Not a single one over thirty years of age.
massacred, it was beautiful early summer,
The work commenced about five o'clock and was over by eight.
Some made a mad and helpless rush, some stood stark and straight,
A few fell at once, shot in the temple or heart, the living and dead.
The maim'd and mangled dug in the dirt, the new-comers saw them there,
Some half-kill'd attempted to crawl away,
These were despatch'd with bayonets or batter'd with the blunts of muskets,
A youth not seventeen years old seiz'd his assassin till two more.
came to release him,
The three were all torn and cover'd with the boy's blood.
Essa é a história do assassinato dos quatrocentos e doze jovens.
Would you learn who won by the light of the moon and stars?
List to the yarn, as my grandmother's father the sailor told it to me.
His was the surly English pluck, and there is no tougher or truer,
and never was, and never will be;
Along the lower'd eve he came horribly raking us.
My captain lash'd fast with his own hands.
On our lower-gun-deck two large pieces had burst at the first fire,
killing all around and blowing up overhead.
Ten o'clock at night, the full moon well up, our leaks on the gain,
and five feet of water reported,
The master-at-arms loosing the prisoners confined in the after-hold.
to give them a chance for themselves.
They see so many strange faces they do not know whom to trust.
The other asks if we demand quarter?
If our colors are struck and the fighting done?
We have not struck, he composedly cries, we have just begun our part.
of the fighting.
One is directed by the captain himself against the enemy's main-mast,
Two well serv'd with grape and canister silence his musketry and.
clear his decks.
They hold out bravely during the whole of the action.
The leaks gain fast on the pumps, the fire eats toward the powder-magazine.
He is not hurried, his voice is neither high nor low,
His eyes give more light to us than our battle-lanterns.
Two great hulls motionless on the breast of the darkness,
Our vessel riddled and slowly sinking, preparations to pass to the.
one we have conquer'd,
The captain on the quarter-deck coldly giving his orders through a.
countenance white as a sheet,
Near by the corpse of the child that serv'd in the cabin,
The dead face of an old salt with long white hair and carefully.
The flames spite of all that can be done flickering aloft and below,
The husky voices of the two or three officers yet fit for duty,
Formless stacks of bodies and bodies by themselves, dabs of flesh.
upon the masts and spars,
Cut of cordage, dangle of rigging, slight shock of the soothe of waves,
Black and impassive guns, litter of powder-parcels, strong scent,
A few large stars overhead, silent and mournful shining,
Delicate sniffs of sea-breeze, smells of sedgy grass and fields by.
the shore, death-messages given in charge to survivors,
The hiss of the surgeon's knife, the gnawing teeth of his saw,
Wheeze, cluck, swash of falling blood, short wild scream, and long,
dull, tapering groan,
These so, these irretrievable.
In at the conquer'd doors they crowd! I am possess'd!
Embody all presences outlaw'd or suffering,
See myself in prison shaped like another man,
And feel the dull unintermitted pain.
It is I let out in the morning and barr'd at night.
and walk by his side,
(I am less the jolly one there, and more the silent one with sweat.
on my twitching lips.)
My face is ash-color'd, my sinews gnarl, away from me people retreat.
I project my hat, sit shame-faced, and beg.
Somehow I have been stunn'd. Stand back!
Give me a little time beyond my cuff'd head, slumbers, dreams, gaping,
I discover myself on the verge of a usual mistake.
That I could forget the trickling tears and the blows of the.
bludgeons and hammers!
That I could look with a separate look on my own crucifixion and.
I resume the overstaid fraction,
The grave of rock multiplies what has been confided to it, or to any graves,
Corpses rise, gashes heal, fastenings roll from me.
Inland and sea-coast we go, and pass all boundary lines,
Our swift ordinances on their way over the whole earth,
The blossoms we wear in our hats the growth of thousands of years.
Continue your annotations, continue your questionings.
Is he waiting for civilization, or past it and mastering it?
Is he from the Mississippi country? Iowa, Oregon, California?
The mountains? prairie-life, bush-life? or sailor from the sea?
They desire he should like them, touch them, speak to them, stay with them.
head, laughter, and naivete,
Slow-stepping feet, common features, common modes and emanations,
They descend in new forms from the tips of his fingers,
They are wafted with the odor of his body or breath, they fly out of.
the glance of his eyes.
You light surfaces only, I force surfaces and depths also.
Say, old top-knot, what do you want?
And might tell what it is in me and what it is in you, but cannot,
And might tell that pining I have, that pulse of my nights and days.
When I give I give myself.
Open your scarf'd chops till I blow grit within you,
Spread your palms and lift the flaps of your pockets,
I am not to be denied, I compel, I have stores plenty and to spare,
And any thing I have I bestow.
You can do nothing and be nothing but what I will infold you.
On his right cheek I put the family kiss,
And in my soul I swear I never will deny him.
(This day I am jetting the stuff of far more arrogant republics.)
Turn the bed-clothes toward the foot of the bed,
Let the physician and the priest go home.
O despairer, here is my neck,
By God, you shall not go down! hang your whole weight upon me.
Every room of the house do I fill with an arm'd force,
Lovers of me, bafflers of graves.
Not doubt, not decease shall dare to lay finger upon you,
I have embraced you, and henceforth possess you to myself,
And when you rise in the morning you will find what I tell you is so.
And for strong upright men I bring yet more needed help.
Heard it and heard it of several thousand years;
It is middling well as far as it goes--but is that all?
Outbidding at the start the old cautious hucksters,
Taking myself the exact dimensions of Jehovah,
Lithographing Kronos, Zeus his son, and Hercules his grandson,
Buying drafts of Osiris, Isis, Belus, Brahma, Buddha,
In my portfolio placing Manito loose, Allah on a leaf, the crucifix.
With Odin and the hideous-faced Mexitli and every idol and image,
Taking them all for what they are worth and not a cent more,
Admitting they were alive and did the work of their days,
(They bore mites as for unfledg'd birds who have now to rise and fly.
and sing for themselves,)
Accepting the rough deific sketches to fill out better in myself,
bestowing them freely on each man and woman I see,
Discovering as much or more in a framer framing a house,
Putting higher claims for him there with his roll'd-up sleeves.
driving the mallet and chisel,
Not objecting to special revelations, considering a curl of smoke or.
a hair on the back of my hand just as curious as any revelation,
Lads ahold of fire-engines and hook-and-ladder ropes no less to me.
than the gods of the antique wars,
Minding their voices peal through the crash of destruction,
Their brawny limbs passing safe over charr'd laths, their white.
foreheads whole and unhurt out of the flames;
By the mechanic's wife with her babe at her nipple interceding for.
every person born,
Three scythes at harvest whizzing in a row from three lusty angels.
with shirts bagg'd out at their waists,
The snag-tooth'd hostler with red hair redeeming sins past and to come,
Selling all he possesses, traveling on foot to fee lawyers for his.
brother and sit by him while he is tried for forgery;
What was strewn in the amplest strewing the square rod about me, and.
not filling the square rod then,
The bull and the bug never worshipp'd half enough,
Dung and dirt more admirable than was dream'd,
The supernatural of no account, myself waiting my time to be one of.
The day getting ready for me when I shall do as much good as the.
best, and be as prodigious;
By my life-lumps! becoming already a creator,
Putting myself here and now to the ambush'd womb of the shadows.
My own voice, orotund sweeping and final.
Come my boys and girls, my women, household and intimates,
Now the performer launches his nerve, he has pass'd his prelude on.
the reeds within.
climax and close.
Music rolls, but not from the organ,
Folks are around me, but they are no household of mine.
Ever the eaters and drinkers, ever the upward and downward sun, ever.
the air and the ceaseless tides,
Ever myself and my neighbors, refreshing, wicked, real,
Ever the old inexplicable query, ever that thorn'd thumb, that.
breath of itches and thirsts,
Ever the vexer's hoot! hoot! till we find where the sly one hides.
and bring him forth,
Ever love, ever the sobbing liquid of life,
Ever the bandage under the chin, ever the trestles of death.
To feed the greed of the belly the brains liberally spooning,
Tickets buying, taking, selling, but in to the feast never once going,
Many sweating, ploughing, thrashing, and then the chaff for payment.
A few idly owning, and they the wheat continually claiming.
Whatever interests the rest interests me, politics, wars, markets,
The mayor and councils, banks, tariffs, steamships, factories,
stocks, stores, real estate and personal estate.
I am aware who they are, (they are positively not worms or fleas,)
I acknowledge the duplicates of myself, the weakest and shallowest.
is deathless with me,
What I do and say the same waits for them,
Every thought that flounders in me the same flounders in them.
Know my omnivorous lines and must not write any less,
And would fetch you whoever you are flush with myself.
But abruptly to question, to leap beyond yet nearer bring;
This printed and bound book--but the printer and the.
The well-taken photographs--but your wife or friend close and solid.
The black ship mail'd with iron, her mighty guns in her turrets--but.
the pluck of the captain and engineers?
In the houses the dishes and fare and furniture--but the host and.
hostess, and the look out of their eyes?
The sky up there--yet here or next door, or across the way?
The saints and sages in history--but you yourself?
Sermons, creeds, theology--but the fathomless human brain,
And what is reason? and what is love? and what is life?
My faith is the greatest of faiths and the least of faiths,
Enclosing worship ancient and modern and all between ancient and modern,
Believing I shall come again upon the earth after five thousand years,
Waiting responses from oracles, honoring the gods, saluting the sun,
Making a fetich of the first rock or stump, powowing with sticks in.
the circle of obis,
Helping the llama or brahmin as he trims the lamps of the idols,
Dancing yet through the streets in a phallic procession, rapt and.
austere in the woods a gymnosophist,
Drinking mead from the skull-cap, to Shastas and Vedas admirant,
minding the Koran,
Walking the teokallis, spotted with gore from the stone and knife,
beating the serpent-skin drum,
Accepting the Gospels, accepting him that was crucified, knowing.
assuredly that he is divine,
To the mass kneeling or the puritan's prayer rising, or sitting.
patiently in a pew,
Ranting and frothing in my insane crisis, or waiting dead-like till.
my spirit arouses me,
Looking forth on pavement and land, or outside of pavement and land,
Belonging to the winders of the circuit of circuits.
man leaving charges before a journey.
Frivolous, sullen, moping, angry, affected, dishearten'd, atheistical,
I know every one of you, I know the sea of torment, doubt, despair.
How they contort rapid as lightning, with spasms and spouts of blood!
I take my place among you as much as among any,
The past is the push of you, me, all, precisely the same,
And what is yet untried and afterward is for you, me, all, precisely.
But I know it will in its turn prove sufficient, and cannot fail.
single one can it fall.
Nor the young woman who died and was put by his side,
Nor the little child that peep'd in at the door, and then drew back.
and was never seen again,
Nor the old man who has lived without purpose, and feels it with.
bitterness worse than gall,
Nor him in the poor house tubercled by rum and the bad disorder,
Nor the numberless slaughter'd and wreck'd, nor the brutish koboo.
call'd the ordure of humanity,
Nor the sacs merely floating with open mouths for food to slip in,
Nor any thing in the earth, or down in the oldest graves of the earth,
Nor any thing in the myriads of spheres, nor the myriads of myriads.
that inhabit them,
Nor the present, nor the least wisp that is known.
I launch all men and women forward with me into the Unknown.
There are trillions ahead, and trillions ahead of them.
And other births will bring us richness and variety.
That which fills its period and place is equal to any.
I am sorry for you, they are not murderous or jealous upon me,
All has been gentle with me, I keep no account with lamentation,
(What have I to do with lamentation?)
On every step bunches of ages, and larger bunches between the steps,
All below duly travel'd, and still I mount and mount.
Afar down I see the huge first Nothing, I know I was even there,
I waited unseen and always, and slept through the lethargic mist,
And took my time, and took no hurt from the fetid carbon.
Faithful and friendly the arms that have help'd me.
For room to me stars kept aside in their own rings,
They sent influences to look after what was to hold me.
My embryo has never been torpid, nothing could overlay it.
The long slow strata piled to rest it on,
Vast vegetables gave it sustenance,
Monstrous sauroids transported it in their mouths and deposited it.
Now on this spot I stand with my robust soul.
O manhood, balanced, florid and full.
Crowding my lips, thick in the pores of my skin,
Jostling me through streets and public halls, coming naked to me at night,
Crying by day, Ahoy! from the rocks of the river, swinging and.
chirping over my head,
Calling my name from flower-beds, vines, tangled underbrush,
Lighting on every moment of my life,
Bussing my body with soft balsamic busses,
Noiselessly passing handfuls out of their hearts and giving them to be mine.
after and out of itself,
And the dark hush promulges as much as any.
And all I see multiplied as high as I can cipher edge but the rim of.
the farther systems.
Outward and outward and forever outward.
He joins with his partners a group of superior circuit,
And greater sets follow, making specks of the greatest inside them.
If I, you, and the worlds, and all beneath or upon their surfaces,
were this moment reduced back to a pallid float, it would.
not avail the long run,
We should surely bring up again where we now stand,
And surely go as much farther, and then farther and farther.
not hazard the span or make it impatient,
They are but parts, any thing is but a part.
Count ever so much, there is limitless time around that.
The Lord will be there and wait till I come on perfect terms,
The great Camerado, the lover true for whom I pine will be there.
never will be measured.
My signs are a rain-proof coat, good shoes, and a staff cut from the woods,
No friend of mine takes his ease in my chair,
I have no chair, no church, no philosophy,
I lead no man to a dinner-table, library, exchange,
But each man and each woman of you I lead upon a knoll,
My left hand hooking you round the waist,
My right hand pointing to landscapes of continents and the public road.
You must travel it for yourself.
Perhaps you have been on it since you were born and did not know,
Perhaps it is everywhere on water and on land.
Wonderful cities and free nations we shall fetch as we go.
And in due time you shall repay the same service to me,
For after we start we never lie by again.
And I said to my spirit When we become the enfolders of those orbs,
and the pleasure and knowledge of every thing in them, shall we.
be fill'd and satisfied then?
And my spirit said No, we but level that lift to pass and continue beyond.
I answer that I cannot answer, you must find out for yourself.
Here are biscuits to eat and here is milk to drink,
But as soon as you sleep and renew yourself in sweet clothes, I kiss you.
with a good-by kiss and open the gate for your egress hence.
Now I wash the gum from your eyes,
You must habit yourself to the dazzle of the light and of every.
moment of your life.
Now I will you to be a bold swimmer,
To jump off in the midst of the sea, rise again, nod to me, shout,
and laughingly dash with your hair.
He that by me spreads a wider breast than my own proves the width of my own,
He most honors my style who learns under it to destroy the teacher.
but in his own right,
Wicked rather than virtuous out of conformity or fear,
Fond of his sweetheart, relishing well his steak,
Unrequited love or a slight cutting him worse than sharp steel cuts,
First-rate to ride, to fight, to hit the bull's eye, to sail a.
skiff, to sing a song or play on the banjo,
Preferring scars and the beard and faces pitted with small-pox over.
And those well-tann'd to those that keep out of the sun.
I follow you whoever you are from the present hour,
My words itch at your ears till you understand them.
I wait for a boat,
(It is you talking just as much as myself, I act as the tongue of you,
Tied in your mouth, in mine it begins to be loosen'd.)
And I swear I will never translate myself at all, only to him or her.
who privately stays with me in the open air.
The nearest gnat is an explanation, and a drop or motion of waves key,
The maul, the oar, the hand-saw, second my words.
But roughs and little children better than they.
The woodman that takes his axe and jug with him shall take me with.
The farm-boy ploughing in the field feels good at the sound of my voice,
In vessels that sail my words sail, I go with fishermen and seamen.
On the night ere the pending battle many seek me, and I do not fail them,
On that solemn night (it may be their last) those that know me seek me.
My face rubs to the hunter's face when he lies down alone in his blanket,
The driver thinking of me does not mind the jolt of his wagon,
The young mother and old mother comprehend me,
The girl and the wife rest the needle a moment and forget where they are,
They and all would resume what I have told them.
And I have said that the body is not more than the soul,
And nothing, not God, is greater to one than one's self is,
And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own.
funeral drest in his shroud,
And I or you pocketless of a dime may purchase the pick of the earth,
And to glance with an eye or show a bean in its pod confounds the.
learning of all times,
And there is no trade or employment but the young man following it.
may become a hero,
And there is no object so soft but it makes a hub for the wheel'd universe,
And I say to any man or woman, Let your soul stand cool and composed.
before a million universes.
For I who am curious about each am not curious about God,
(No array of terms can say how much I am at peace about God and.
Nor do I understand who there can be more wonderful than myself.
I see something of God each hour of the twenty-four, and each moment then,
In the faces of men and women I see God, and in my own face in the glass,
I find letters from God dropt in the street, and every one is sign'd.
And I leave them where they are, for I know that wheresoe'er I go,
Others will punctually come for ever and ever.
try to alarm me.
I see the elder-hand pressing receiving supporting,
I recline by the sills of the exquisite flexible doors,
And mark the outlet, and mark the relief and escape.
I smell the white roses sweet-scented and growing,
I reach to the leafy lips, I reach to the polish'd breasts of melons.
(No doubt I have died myself ten thousand times before.)
O suns--O grass of graves--O perpetual transfers and promotions,
If you do not say any thing how can I say any thing?
Of the moon that descends the steeps of the soughing twilight,
Toss, sparkles of day and dusk--toss on the black stems that decay.
Toss to the moaning gibberish of the dry limbs.
I perceive that the ghastly glimmer is noonday sunbeams reflected,
And debouch to the steady and central from the offspring great or small.
I sleep--I sleep long.
It is not in any dictionary, utterance, symbol.
To it the creation is the friend whose embracing awakes me.
It is not chaos or death--it is form, union, plan--it is eternal.
life--it is Happiness.
And proceed to fill my next fold of the future.
Look in my face while I snuff the sidle of evening,
(Talk honestly, no one else hears you, and I stay only a minute longer.)
Very well then I contradict myself,
(I am large, I contain multitudes.)
Who wishes to walk with me?
and my loitering.
I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world.
It flings my likeness after the rest and true as any on the shadow'd wilds,
It coaxes me to the vapor and the dusk.
I effuse my flesh in eddies, and drift it in lacy jags.
If you want me again look for me under your boot-soles.
But I shall be good health to you nevertheless,
And filter and fibre your blood.
Missing me one place search another,
I stop somewhere waiting for you.
DayPoems Poem No. 1900.
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How to solve the housing problem in Hong Kong.
Resolving the housing problem has remained at the top of Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying’s agenda since Day 1.
However, two years have passed since he took office, and despite policy tightening, which did manage to curb property prices temporarily, home prices and rents in Hong Kong remain sky-high.
It has become clear that we might be in the midst of the worst housing and rent affordability crisis this city has ever seen.
Although homeownership or rental needs might vary between different age groups and income groups, there is no doubt that the administration’s housing policies have failed to cater to the needs of middle-class families.
In the face of soaring property prices and rents, it appears that the middle class in Hong Kong, who contribute so much to the government’s revenue each year, will continue to suffer, with their voices not being heard and their demands not being attended to.
The government’s attempt to stabilize the property market by increasing supply has so far proven futile, because most middle-class families in Hong Kong are not covered by public housing programs, where a major part of the government’s supply expansion is concentrated.
Recent statistics from the Rating and Valuation Department show property prices rose six months in a row to September, by a total of 8.6 percent, already exceeding last year’s full-year increase of 5.4 percent.
In particular, prices of small flats rose by a whopping 9.4 percent, surpassing the gains in all other types of housing in the same period.
Even though the government has introduced measures in recent years to limit the size of newly built flats, to secure a supply of small and affordable units, property developers continue to reap huge profits by packaging and marketing their flats as luxury homes.
To make matters worse, some developers try to create an illusion of a shortage of supply by deliberately hoarding land and flats to drive up prices.
To many middle-class couples, buying their own home often looks like a dream that will never come true.
Given the skyrocketing prices of homes, I believe the administration must address issues like how to prevent developers from hoarding — for example, by introducing special provisions in land sale contracts and enhancing oversight and transparency — to achieve a healthier, fairer and more sustainable property market.
In addition, the government should review and redefine the role of the Urban Renewal Authority (URA) to make sure its urban redevelopment programs are in line with government policy.
It is also important for the URA to strike a balance between affordability and market pricing and to avoid building and selling only luxury homes.
The government should also consider rebuilding vacant, run-down hostels for civil servants into public housing.
These empty premises are scattered across the territory and often occupy key urban locations, making them the perfect solution to the shortage of land for building homes in urban areas.
Of course, buying one’s own home is not the only option, and the financial tsunami back in 2008 and the economic downturn that followed did push a lot of middle-class families out of homeownership into rentals. However, these people are also suffering, as rents in Hong Kong have hit record highs.
Rents in Hong Kong rose 4.2 percent between the start of the year and September, already surpassing last year’s full-year increase of 3.9 percent.
Worse still, incomes for most middle-class families have not been going up as fast as inflation, and hundreds of thousands of tenants are paying an unbearable portion of their incomes in rent.
For years, the government has either turned a blind eye to or delayed action on the issue of soaring rents, insisting that it will not reintroduce rental control.
As a result, tenants remain at the mercy of their landlords. In fact the reintroduction of rental restrictions that favor tenants could provide a degree of support and a guarantee of housing for families with low or moderate incomes who can only afford to rent their homes.
In my opinion, the government should also consider pursuing short-term measures such as extending the deadline for tenants to move out of their rented property when served with an eviction notice, or legally capping rent increases to ease the pressure on tenant households.
In fact, what our middle-class families hope for is not direct subsidies like cash grants but a more regulated housing market that can offer them more choice and protection.
The middle class in Hong Kong always pay their taxes on time and seldom rely on the government for support.
Their grievances arise not from the economic downturn but from the government’s failure to regulate the housing market properly and prevent big developers from making huge profits at the expense of the public.
Therefore CY’s administration must review its entire housing policy and re-examine the housing needs of different walks of life.
The housing problems facing our society are deep-rooted and complicated, and it will certainly take vision, courage and careful planning on the part of government to address them.
Building more public housing estates wherever we can without proper management and oversight will never get to the bottom of the matter.
This article first appeared in the Hong Kong Economic Journal on Dec. 12.

Angola to loosen kwanza’s dollar peg to end forex scarcity.
Luanda — Angola is planning to give freer rein to its currency and end a foreign-exchange scarcity that has crippled the oil cartel Opec member’s economy. It also plans to renegotiate some debt, which sent its dollar securities tumbling.
The central bank will scrap the kwanza’s peg to the dollar and establish a band in which the currency will trade before the end of this quarter, governor José de Lima Massano told reporters in Luanda on Wednesday. The central bank won’t publicize the trading range, but will take "corrective measures" if the kwanza floats outside it, he said.
"We have an exchange rate that does not reflect the truth," Massano said. The possibility of a currency depreciation is "great".
The trading band will be decided at a policy meeting on Thursday, the country’s RNA Radio reported, without saying how it got the information.
The move underlines how President João Lourenço, little more than three months after being elected in place of José Eduardo dos Santos, is driving through reforms to bolster growth in Africa’s second-largest oil exporter. Angola’s economy was battered by the fall in crude prices from mid-2014, and its foreign reserves fell to the lowest since 2010.
While its currency has weakened more that 40% against the dollar since the oil crash, analysts say it’s still over-valued. The kwanza has been pegged at about 166 against the dollar since April 2016, but trades at 430 on the black market, according to website kinguilahoje.
Authorities have vowed to crack down on black-market currency traders to try to narrow the gap between the official and the informal exchange rate.
Angolan state shake-up extended to telecoms.
Forex reserves dipped to $14.2bn in November from $15.4bn in October, and are down from $20bn at the start of 2017, according to the central bank.
The dollar shortage has left hundreds of companies struggling to pay foreign workers and overseas suppliers, prompting many to leave the import-dependent country. To stem dollar outflows, Angola has imposed limits on the transfer of foreign currencies abroad.
"It’s difficult to tell, but it’s possible they will let the kwanza drop by more than 20%," said Samantha Singh, an analyst at Absa Bank.
Angola will seek to renegotiate domestic and foreign debt to reduce the burden on government finances, finance minister Archer Mangueira said at the same press conference. It may issue more debt if the need arises, he said. The previous government of Dos Santos began talks in August with banks to raise $2bn of bonds.
"We’re developing efforts to renegotiate our debt with our main partners throughout 2018," he said. The nation’s foreign debt is $38bn and renegotiating the maturities and interest rates of liabilities is a "priority", he said, without providing more details.
The yield on Angola’s $438m of securities due in 2019 rose 32 basis points, the most on a closing basis since March, to 5.4% by 10.04am in London on Thursday. The rate on the government’s $1.5bn of debt maturing in 2025 rose six basis points to 6.88%.
"The yield on Angola’s eurobond could rise by 700 to 1,000 basis points," William Jackson, a senior emerging-markets economist at Capital Economics in London, said in an e-mailed note. Much of Angola’s external debt is in the form of bilateral loans from nations such as China, rather than eurobonds, according to Jackson.
The government was carrying out a "diagnosis" of the country’s $5bn sovereign wealth fund after reports last year about alleged mismanagement of the Fundo Soberano de Angola’s finances.
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