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...A DEATH SCENE by EMILY JANE BRONTE THE BOBOLINKS by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH SWEET STAY-AT-HOME by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES THE SNOW-STORM by RALPH WALDO EMERSON THE CELLO by RICHARD WATSON GILDER |