A Performance At Hog Theater

By: Russel 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 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 contribution 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 . . .

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My rendition of Edson's poem.