In this poem, you hear a cynicism and satirical nature with his choice of words. The last line especially , "Till human voices wake us, and we drown", is very eerie. His use of stream of consciousness may at first confuse the listener, causing them to focus on his scatter-brained style of poetry rather than the words themselves--but this stream is eerie because of this. Hearing someone's true, uncensored, raw emotions put on paper can be the scariest thing on this planet--because I am a firm believer that with the dark comes the light, and everyone is capable of writing "dark and twisty" things, even if in reality the writer is far from dark. Hearing/reading his mind on paper really shows this side of him.
He does thread the whole poem together with the question of "Do I dare?"--the idea that people often question whether or not they should do something (either pre, during, or post an event). In this way, he makes you connect his stream of consciousness and create a work of art that makes you question yourself and others.
It is post-modern for all of the reasons mentioned above. By having a natural flow, the author allows for a poem to be created that in itself is unorthodox. It has no constant rhythmic pattern, nor constant rhyme scheme or even tone. It has imagery (the yellow fog) and it has description, but any other ties to poetry are seemingly gone from the text.
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