"...I asked myself---"of all melancholy topics, what, according to the universal understanding of mankind, is the most melancholy?" Death was the obvious reply. "And when," I said, "is this most melancholy topic most poetical?" From what I have already explained at some length, the answer, here also, is obvious--"When it most closely allies itself to Beauty: the death, then, of a beautiful woman is, unquestionably, the most poetical topic in the world--and equally is it beyond doubt that the lips best suited for such topic are those of a bereaved lover."
E.A. Poe, The Philosophy of Composition, 1846
(regarding the creation of "The Raven")
"Drunk at the matinee" is a collection of candid poetry about stupid shit that we all experience from day to day.
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