The Life of a Man
By: Russell Edson
For breakfast a
man
must
br
eak


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 aboutHumpty Dumpty...
Coded by Eamonn Keenan