It seems that Philadelphia and Baltimore are fighting over the body of Edgar Allen Poe. Baltimore has it in with their Poe museum but Phili wants it claiming that he did most of his writing there.
These people need to get a life. Most people don’t care about Edgar Allen Poe any more and they certainly don’t care about his dead body.
NEVER SAY NEVERMORE
NEWSWIRE–A scholar of Edgar Allen Poe says that because the author wrote most of his works in Philadelphia, his burial place should be moved to there from Baltimore.
As they do in Philly often, folks will dream of how the coffin
Of the hometown author Edgar might escape the Harbor Shore:
Pennsylvania, he should be in; they’re prepared for his debris, in
Hopes his casket might be stolen, stolen as it holds his gore.
‘Til that town with love of brothers gets some shovels on the chore,
Poe remains in Baltimore.
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