Russell Edson

A Performance At Hog Theater

  • 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…
© Russell Edson
The Tunnel: Selected Poems. Field Editions, Oberlin College Press, 1994.