The Death of Poe
Edgar Alan Poe Is dead. Seriously, I read it.
He died in October 1849 - or did he?
Do we really know?
Poe wrote about death a lot,
he teased with it, it was his favorite tool.
He kept death close and twisted it like a knife.
His profession was the macabre, the shadow,
the summoned dread and the gruesome aftermath.
He was a writer and a critic - what’s more dreadful than a critic?
They say he died from “unknown causes"
- how absolutely perfect.
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