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Found it. I realize now that my description wasn't as helpful as it could have been. SLOUCHING TOWARD NIRVANA - poem for my 70th birthday. Thanks for the help, to those of you that were helpful. And thanks for the reminder, those of you who weren't.

I had a look. Wasn't that one either. I think I'm going to look at the library records to see the last few I checked out and just re-read them. Thanks again for the tip, Black Swan. I'll post the book and poem titles here when I find it. Don't worry mjp, just the titles, not the actual...

Two of the copies from the library have been lost and the one that is still available isn't allowed for checkout (given the circumstances it seems reasonable). It might take me a couple days to get to the library that has it on the reference shelf. I'll let you know. Thanks a lot.

I really appreciate you taking the time to write this. It was very insightful AND helpful. Also helpful. What exactly is this forum for aside from this exact use-case? It was a poem in one of his books that I read. I'm having a hard time finding the poem and while it wouldn't be a tragedy...

I think you're right. Thanks, Stavrogin. I'm having a hell of a time finding the poem on the internet, but I know the library down the street has a copy of the book. I'll post once I can verify. Thanks, Mark Is there a good resource that would have a lot of his poems in a database...

I've been looking for a poem that is about growing old. It compares being concerned with death (or maybe just thinking about it) to dogs barking into the night or darkness or something. I think it was published in one of his posthumous books. I've tried to go through them again though with no...