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| 4521. | Soup Song by Russell Edson | | How I make my soup: I draw water from a tap . . .
I am not an artist. And the water is not so much
drawn as allowed to fall, and to capture its... |
| 4522. | The Position by Russell Edson | | They let me in. I went right up to the nursery
and climbed into the crib, and assumed the famous
fetal position.
They didn't know what to make ... |
| 4523. | The Autopsy by Russell Edson | | In a back room a man is performing an autopsy
on an old raincoat.
His wife appears in the doorway with a candle
and asks, how does it go?
No... |
| 4524. | A Performance At Hog Theater by Russell Edson | | There was once a hog theater where hogs performed
as men, had men been hogs.
One hog said, I will be a hog in a field which has
found a mouse... |
| 4525. | The Rubaiyat Of Omar Khayyam Of Naishapur by Edward Fitzgerald | | 1
Awake! for Morning in the Bowl of Night
Has flung the Stone that puts the Stars to Flight:
And Lo! the Hunter of the East has caught
The Sulta... |
| 4526. | The Meadows In Spring by Edward Fitzgerald | | 'Tis a dull sight
To see the year dying,
When winter winds
Set the yellow wood sighing:
Sighing, oh! sighing.
When such a time cometh,
I do re... |
| 4528. | The Vanity of Human Wishes (excerpts) by Samuel Johnson | | 1 Let observation with extensive view,
2 Survey mankind, from China to Peru;
3 Remark each anxious toil, each eager strife,
4 And watch the busy s... |
| 4529. | Part Of Speech by Joseph Brodsky | | ...and when "the future" is uttered, swarms of mice
rush out of the Russian language and gnaw a piece
of ripened memory which is twice
as hole-rid... |
| 4530. | A Polar Explorer by Joseph Brodsky | | All the huskies are eaten. There is no space
left in the diary, And the beads of quick
words scatter over his spouse's sepia-shaded face
adding th... |
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