The mysterious, anonymous sad man who’s been leaving a birthday present of three roses and a bottle of cognac on Edgar Allan Poe’s grave hasn’t showed two years in a row. Fans of the “Poe Toaster” are now planning one last vigil on January 19.

That’s it then. So long. Famed as “Poe Toaster” since 1978 is “Poe Toaster” no more, presumed dead and to be symbolically buried for the last time.

First, they wipe Oscar Wilde’s grave from adoring “graffiti” and lip stick kisses and now they “kill off” a Poe grave visitor, just because he hasn’t been up to the trip? Is no tradition in worshiping the best of our dead safe?