22,000 feet over Hazed square Vegetable planet Floor Approaching Chicago to Die or flying over Earth another 40 years to die-Indifferent, and Afraid, that the bone-shattering bullet be the same as the vast evaporation-of-phenomena Cancer Come true in an old man's bed. Many chimneys smoldering, city flats virus-linked along Delaware bays under horizon-smog- airplane drifting black vapor-filaments above Wilmington--The iron habitations endless from Manhattan to the Capitol. Poe! D'jya prophesy this Smogland, this Inferno, Didja Dream Baltimore'd Be Seen From Heaven by Man Poet's eyes Astounded in the Fire Haze, carbon Gas aghast! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...BRUTUS LIVES AGAIN IN BOOTH by EDGAR LEE MASTERS HOMAGE TO SEXTUS PROPERTIUS: 3 by EZRA POUND THE LANDLADY'S DAUGHTER by JOHANN LUDWIG UHLAND THE APOSTLE by PIERRE JEAN DE BERANGER FOR THERE IS NO HELP IN THEM by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN THE DRIED MILLPOND by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN |