EDGAR ALLAN POETRY

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

cower down in desperation to accept
whatever i accorded it of fate
i have none of the tenderer-than-thou
collectivistic regimenting love
with which the modern world is being swept
but this poor microscopic item now
since it was nothing i knew evil of
i let it lie there till i hope it slept
i have a mind myself and recognize
mind when i meet with it in any guise
no one can know how glad i am to find
on any sheet the least display of mind