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Jim Behrle contains multitudes.

Unlike Whitman's, though, Behrle's multitudes are not Civil War wounded, sweaty dockhands, or slave laborers, but defecating bears, gay sailors, and mustachioed cats in clown costumes. And these multitudes have made their way into a segment of the popular consciousness not through the elevated lyric of a nation's soul, but through a series of amateur cartoons, most notably "Kreepie Kats," a weekly feature on the media gossip site Gawker.

According to a nonsensical, kontext-free profile in the Village Voice, a poet named Jim Behrle is the author of our favorite web komic. Is Jim an idiot—or an idiot savant? You'll have to read the piece to find out (and good luck with that), but one thing's for sure: Dude is the best looking poet we've ever seen.

"Kreepie Kats" Guy Speaks [VV]
[Photo: Alana Cundy]