1956: Dale Sullivan, Canadian Poet

ABIDE

I will abide my age
the impending disaster
of the mindless mass
having outgrown its
own hands and feet
-- another, a friend
hanged himself
from the ceiling beam
last Halloween

I plan nothing more
than to bury myself
alive -- in poems
full of the imminent
disease, the other,
and the desperate
who have forgotten
how to strike first,
before the next meal.

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