June 16th, 2020 by Corey A. Edwards
It’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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June 7th, 2018 by Corey A. Edwards
Josephine 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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February 8th, 2018 by Corey A. Edwards
Some 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
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January 13th, 2018 by Corey A. Edwards
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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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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October 2nd, 2008 by Corey A. Edwards
