Dr. John Moran responded to Detective Allan Pinkerton’s query about who might have wished to kill Edgar Allan Poe. Moran had been the attending physician during Poe’s last hours. A Scottish immigrant, Pinkerton had migrated to America in 1842, seven years prior to Poe’s demise. He’d been a fan of Poe’s work, especially the stories featuring French detective August Dupin.
Read MoreI could stand outside the candy store all day and never get a sweet taste
You could stroll past ignoring me or hand me a stick of gum
I could tell the story of the gum man
Or how the hawk pecked out my eyes and flew away with a shiny wrapper
If all it took
were a letter to the editor,
bombs would not
be falling.
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Read MoreA ragged Charlie Chaplin,
he savors word-sounds, mouths the choicest
advertisements, sucking
their flavor, licking them with tongue-tip.