Walt Whitman & Breaking Bad

Kera Bolonik, writing for the Poetry Foundation:

Had Walt Whitman, an occasional proponent of Prohibition, lived today, he might have been horrified to discover that he in any way inspired a TV series about a murderous drug lord named Walter White. And stunned (though perhaps pleased) to find his magnum opus employed as the smoking gun leading to the man’s undoing.

Now I regret not watching this show!

(via boingboing.net)