Edson, Russell

A Performance At Hog Theater

1. There was once a hog theater where hogs performed
2. as men, had men been hogs.
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4. One hog said, I will be a hog in a field which has
5. found a mouse which is being eaten by the same hog
6. which is in the field and which has found the mouse,
7. which I am performing as my contribution to the
8. performer’s art.
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10. Oh let’s just be hogs, cried an old hog.
11.  
12. And so the hogs streamed out of the theater crying,
13. only hogs, only
14.  
15. hogs…