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Submit Human Translation | Discuss Poem | Post Poetry | Listen McGill Live The Breast by Russell Edson One night a woman's breast came to a man's room and began to talk about her twin sister. Her twin sister this and her twin sister that. Finally the man said, but what about you, dear breast? And so the breast spent the rest of the night talking about herself. It was the same as when she talked about her sister: herself this and herself that. Finally the man kissed her nipple and said, I'm sorry, and fell asleep... American Review | www.PaperLyon.com | McGill Live Radio | Publish

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Poems by Russell Edson Accidents Angels Antimatter Ape Ape And Coffee A Historical Breakfast A Journey Through The Moonlight A Performance At Hog Theater A Stone Is Nobodys Conjugal Counting Sheep Elephant Dormitory Erasing Amyloo Grass Hands Mr Brain One Lonely Afternoon On The Eating Of Mice Paying The Captain Sleep Soup Song The Alfresco Moment The Autopsy The Breast The Bridge The Changeling The Closet The Death Of A Fly The Fall The Family Monkey The Father Of Toads The Fight The Floor The Gentlemen In The Meadow The Having To Love Something Else The Lighted Window The Man Rock The Marionettes Of Distant Masters The Melting The Ox The Pattern The Philosophers The Pilot The Position The Road The Rats Tight Schedule The Reason Why The Closet-Man Is Nev The Sad Message The Theory The Toy-Maker The Tree The Wounded Breakfast Vomit You

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R.S. Thomas	Rainer Maria Rilke	Ralph Emerson
Randall Jarrell	Raymond Carver	Richard Brautigan
Richard Crashaw	Richard Hugo	Richard Lovelace
Richard Wilbur	Robert Browning	Robert Burns
Robert Creeley	Robert Francis	Robert Frost
Robert Graves	Robert Herrick	Robert Lowell
Robert Pinsky	Robert Service	Rudyard Kipling
Rupert Brooke	Russell Edson

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