Just Like Edgar Allen Poe’s Blues

I found my heart wandering
the streets of Baltimore,

penniless,
raving unintelligibly,

dressed in someone else’s clothes.
It was coming from a funeral,

or going to one,
and when I failed to ask whose,

it was gone.

But, all these years later,
mere acquaintances

continue to receive letters
begging for $10 for the fare home.

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“Just Like Edgar Allen Poe’s Blues” is written by Howie Good and appeared originally in Carcinogenic Poetry on December 5, 2009.

“Wandering the Streets of Baltimore, Blue” is generative artwork by MACXAI. Generative artwork in oil painting style, an ekphrastic work generated with the text of “Just Like Edgar Allen Poe’s Blues,” a poem by Howie Good.