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Submit Human Translation | Discuss Poem | Post Poetry | Listen McGill Live The Having To Love Something Else by Russell Edson There was a man who would marry his mother, and asked his father for his mother's hand in marriage, and was told he could not marry his mother's hand because it was attached to all the rest of mother, which was all married to his father; that he'd have to love something else... And so he went into the world to love something else, and fell in love with a dining room. He asked someone standing there, may I have this dining room's hand in marriage? You may not, its hand is attached to all the rest of it, which has all been promised to me in connubial alliance, said someone standing there. Just because the dining room lives in your house doesn't necessarily give you claim to its affections... Yes it does, for a dining room is always to be married to the heir apparent in the line of succession; after father it's my turn; and only if all mankind were destroyed could you succeed any other to the hand of this dining room. You'll have to love something else... And so the man who would marry his mother was again in the world looking for something to love that was not already loved... 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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