Levi's is using a Walt Whitman poem in a couple of their jeans commercials. The first uses an actual recording of Whitman reciting the poem "America":
The second uses "Pioneers! O Pioneers!":
This is disturbing. What's next, a Walt Whitman mall? Oh, yeah.
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