You Poem by Russell Edson

You

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Out of nothing there comes a time called childhood, which
is simply a path leading through an archway called
adolescence. A small town there, past the arch called youth.
Soon, down the road, where one almost misses the life
lived beyond the flower, is a small shack labeled, you.
And it is here the future lives in the several postures of
arm on windowsill, cheek on this; elbows on knees, face in
the hands; sometimes the head thrown back, eyes staring into
the ceiling . . . This into nothing down the long day's arc . . .

COMMENTS OF THE POEM
M Asim Nehal 03 February 2016

Nicely thought

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a small shack labeled me. not a mansion, but better than an outhouse...

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Russell Edson

Russell Edson

Connecticut, United States
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