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Bummer Now

November 4th, 2024 by Corey A. Edwards

bummer now
We met at school
in second grade
you called my skull art crap
I knew right then
we’d not be friends
Soon we we’re thick as thieves
Hiking the hills
swimming the ditch
pell mell straight downstream
Lip syncing songs,
the acting bug
You got me up on stage
but

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I Sing

October 31st, 2024 by Corey A. Edwards

I Sing
Sometimes people say
“maybe he’s crazy”
Other times
“perhaps he is insane”
All the words they’ve said rico-
chet ’round inside my head
’til I sing

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You Don’t Know What’ll Be Lost (Until It’s Gone)

October 22nd, 2024 by Corey A. Edwards

You don't know what'll be lost (until it's gone)
You don’t know what’ll be lost
until it’s gone
No, you don’t know what’ll be lost
until it’s gone
If there’s anything I’ve learned it’s that
you’ll miss the books you burn and
You don’t know what’ll be lost
until it’s gone

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9 Day Vacation

June 16th, 2020 by Corey A. Edwards

9 Day VacationIt’s a snowy day.
Yeah, the snow is coming down.
The sun upstairs asleep, so deep
behind curtains of grey clouds.

Well, it started out as rain,
dribbling down and spitting on us.
Then it froze and now it’s
big white flakes falling down
as my cigarette dies in the ashtray,
a long, grey untouched husk.

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Maybe Crazy

June 7th, 2018 by Corey A. Edwards

Maybe Crazy - the new semi-autobiographical tune from Corey A. EdwardsJosephine lives on the streets
They say he wrote a children’s book
He wears a purse on his head
and trusts no one who drinks Coke
I once gave him some food from my picnic
in exchange for a handful of white rocks
I misunderstood. I thought
he just wanted a paper plate

Maybe crazy, yeah
Gone as a hoot owl
raised in a closet
Crazy, yeah – you know
but …

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Nail It Down

February 8th, 2018 by Corey A. Edwards

nail it down - The 5-finger discount twinsSome say they were born under a bad sign
Sometimes there is just a bad seed
When them Edwards boys come a-sniffin’ around
I tell you now, you better pay heed

I heard they stole some Matchbox from the Woolworths
Some Abba-Zabbas from the Alco
They took a whole damn register from Ben Frank’s
It just grew legs and walked out the door

Y’gotta nail it down

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Witch

January 13th, 2018 by Corey A. Edwards

The Three Witches From Macbeth - Alexandre-Marie Colin

The Three Witches From Macbeth
Alexandre-Marie Colin

Did she come from the trees
Or maybe straight up from the ground?
All I know is one minute she’s not there
Then she is without a sound

Red stains around a mouth hole
Like a screaming red blot
Blue tattoos on leathered brown skin
with eyes both black and hot

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Hey, Wimpy

December 27th, 2017 by Corey A. Edwards

Hey, WimpyHey Wimpy,
where have you gone?
You used to be underfoot
always taggin’ along

And Wimpy,
I know you felt wronged
but you can’t go on bein’ hurt
your whole life long

Are you coming home soon?
Will I see you there?
I long to hear your jokes again
and muss your hair

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Wrote A Song

November 29th, 2017 by Corey A. Edwards

I wrote a song, I wrote a song - yeah!I wrote a song
it isn’t very good
I couldn’t find a rhyme
for every wood
I cannot play it
like I oughta should but

I wrote a song
I wrote a song, man!
I wrote a song,
a really real song!

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Actress

August 15th, 2013 by Corey A. Edwards

actress

Watch the boys all gather ’round
responding to her siren sound
Silken hair and perfect skin
but she lets nobody in
Once a lover, once a friend
Once upon a time – the end
Now her lines have all been read
Nothing for her left unsaid

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Siren

January 14th, 2013 by Corey A. Edwards

Siren
 
Follow the
people, you’ll
learn their
things:
a
culture full of
money and a
box that
sings

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A Real Gem of A Ditty

April 1st, 2009 by Corey A. Edwards

I love the potential rhythm of language; tongue twisters, alliteration, rhyme – I mess around with this stuff all the time.

When a friend asked me to hear the phrase “jiggle it a little, it’ll open,” saying that it was worthy of the “Mairzy Dotes” treatment, well, I couldn’t resist.

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A Yunka Chunk

October 2nd, 2008 by Corey A. Edwards


(a yunka-chunk a yunka-chunk as with a banjo)

I’m chokin’ on smoke
I’m slippin’ in sweat
I fell down
on my kiester
and my pants got wet
Well someone hollered “stop!”
but I aint done yet
I’m chokin’ on smoke
an’ I’m a-slippin’ in sweat

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