EDGAR ALLAN POETRY

Can you guess if the poetry sample was written by a person?

and they ll wilt, like men
give himmaleh, --
they ll carry him
escape
i never hear the word escape
without a quicker blood,
a sudden expectation,
a flying attitude
i never hear of prisons broad
by soldiers battered down,
but i tug childish at my bars, --
only to fail again