Morris Gilbert. Epitaph on a Madman's Grave. Harriet Monroe, ed. Poetry: A Magazine of Verse. 1912-22

Harriet Monroe, ed. (1860–1936). Poetry: A Magazine of Verse. 1912–22.

Epitaph on a Madman’s Grave

By 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.