lina&nando

A PERFORMANCE AT HOG THEATER

There was once a hog theater where hogs performed
as men, has men been hogs.

One hog said, I will be a hog in a field which has found
a mouse which is being eaten by the same hog which
is in the field and which has found the mouse, which
I am performing as my comtribution to the performer’s
art.

Oh let’s just be hogs, cried an old hog.

And so the hogs streamed out of the theater crying,
only hogs, only hogs...



Russell Edson
The Tunnel: Selected Poems