Added: Feb 8, 2010
From: PoemsEveryDay
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February 5, 2010.Sorry for missing a few days. I was up in Chapel Hill visiting some old friends and making new ones so I apologize for being tardy. But never fear, I will come through. Better late than never?Cornelius Eady was born in Rochester, NY in 1954. He is currently director of the Poetry Center at the State University of New York at Stony Brook.Muddy Waters & the Chicago BluesGood news from the windy city: Thomas Edison'sTime on the planet has been validated. The guitarsAnd harps begin their slow transitionOf the street, an S.O.S. of what you needAnd what you have. The way this lifeTries to roar you down, you have to fightFire with fire: the amplified powerOf a hip rotating in an upstairs flatVs. the old indignities; the static Heat of nothing, nowhere,No how against this conversationOf fingers and tongues, thisRent party above the Slaughter-house.Muddy Waters & the Chicago Blues
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