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Harriet Monroe, ed. (1860–1936). The New Poetry: An Anthology. 1917.

Epitaph on a Madman’s Grave

Morris Gilbert

From “Episodes”

THE TIME had come to kill himself, he said,

Because at night he couldn’t run and dive

Into a pool of sleep heels over head

The way he used to do when he was five.