Summer days stung
with sweet leaf chewing tobacco
the bitter blood of choke cherries
and crisp stalked asparagus purloined
like the shade we find and eat it in
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June 29th, 2011 by Corey A. Edwards
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November 15th, 2008 by Corey A. Edwards
Gargantuan
slope-browed
white trash schlub
with the petite beauty
on your arm:
How did you do it?
Then she speaks.
Oh. I see.
She is inside
as you are out.
You make a lovely couple.
November 10th, 2008 by Corey A. Edwards
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July 7th, 2008 by Corey A. Edwards
(this post is part of an aborted 1 year experiment in material abstinence I called The Necessary Year)
Here’s a poem I wrote a number of years ago that fairly successfully (if also hyperbolically) outlines knee-jerk consumerism and some of its effects. All it needs is a little frantically paced music and it could be The Necessary Year anthem …
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