The eastern mud turtle (Kinosternon subrubrum) or common mud turtle is a common species of turtle found in the United States.
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“The more important the title, the more self-important the person, the greater the amount of time spent on the Eastern shuttle, the more suspicious the man and the less vitality in the organization.”
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“Out of the mud two strangers came”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)
“I think of the nestling fallen into the deep grass,
The turtle gasping in the dusty rubble of the highway,
The paralytic stunned in the tub, and the water rising,—
All things innocent, hapless, forsaken.”
—Theodore Roethke (1908–1963)