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Submit Human Translation | Discuss Poem | Post Poetry | Listen McGill Live The Sad Message by Russell Edson The Captain becomes moody at sea. He's afraid of water; such bully amounts that prove the seas... A glass of water is one thing. A man easily downs it, capturing its menace in his bladder; pissing it away. A few drops of rain do little harm, save to remind of how grief looks upon the cheek. One day the water is willing to bear your ship upon its back like a liquid elephant. The next day the elephant doesn't want you on its back, and says, I have no more willingness to have you there; get off. At sea this is a sad message. The Captain sits in his cabin wearing a parachute, listening to what the sea might say... 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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