If you stand at work in a shop I stand as nigh as the nighest
in the same shop,
If you bestow gifts on your brother or dearest friend I demand
as good as your brother or dearest friend,
If your lover, husband, wife, is welcome by day or night, I
must be personally as welcome,
If you become degraded, criminal, ill, then I become so for your sake,
If you remember your foolish and outlaw'd deeds, do you
think that I cannot remember my own foolish
and outlaw'd deeds?
If you carouse at the table I carouse at the opposite side of
the table,
If you meet a stranger in the streets and love him or her,
why I often meet strangers in the street and
love them.
Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass
