Fired from a job for laziness, he wrote, "I lean and loafe at my ease observing a spear of summer grass"
He wrote to friends that Leaves was "a nondescript monster," with "
terrible eyes... [DOC] [TLE] Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman - Books [PAR] But here are a few personal observations, in lazy man's bullet points, because I 
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