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lionk2044
lionk2044
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The Life of Man by Russell Edson analysis

For breakfast a man must break an egg. Then not all the king's horses and all the king's men can do very much about it. Past perfect the broken egg no longer breaks, a dead man no longer dies... And as he spills the broken egg into a frying pan he murmurs, Ah, well, too bad about Humpty Dumpty...

dont understand this poem, i could use some insight

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Posted by lionk2044 on Tuesday June 9, 2009 at 2:04 PM and tagged with analysis, poem, russell edson.