Russell Edson

Connecticut, United States

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Connecticut, United States

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Ape

★ ★

You haven't finished your ape, said mother to father,
who had monkey hair and blood on his whiskers.

I've had enough monkey, cried father.
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One Lonely Afternoon

★ ★

Since the fern can't go to the sink for a drink of
water, I graciously submit myself to the task, bringing two
glasses from the sink.
And so we sit, the fern and I, sipping water together.
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A Stone Is Nobody's

★ ★

A man ambushed a stone. Caught it. Made it a prisoner.
Put it in a dark room and stood guard over it for the
rest of his life.
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Sleep

★ ★

There was a man who didn't know how to sleep; nodding
off every night into a drab, unprofessional sleep. Sleep that
he'd grown so tired of sleeping.
He tried reading The Manual of Sleep, but it just put him
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On The Eating Of Mice

★ ★

A woman prepared a mouse for her husband's dinner,
roasting it with a blueberry in its mouth.

At table he uses a dentist's pick and a surgeon's scalpel,
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Counting Sheep

★ ★

A scientist has a test tube full of sheep. He
wonders if he should try to shrink a pasture
for them.
They are like grains of rice.
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The Fight

★ ★

A man is fighting with a cup of coffee. The rules: he must not
break the cup nor spill its coffee; nor must the cup break the
man's bones or spill his blood.
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The Fall

★ ★

There was a man who found two leaves and came
indoors holding them out saying to his parents
that he was a tree.
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Antimatter

★ ★

On the other side of a mirror there's an inverse world,
where the insane go sane; where bones climb out of the
earth and recede to the first slime of love.
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10.

Hands

★ ★

There was a road that leads him to go to find
a certain time where he sits.

Smokes quietly in the evening by the four legged
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