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A Poet Forgets His Library

from Seven Songs EP by Cornelius Eady

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Words: Cornelius Eady
Music: Bernie Heveron
Arranged by Rough Magic

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A Poet Forgets His Library

Look at all those lovely books.
What are all those books to me?
Words are wriggle-fish in an endless sea.
I over-hear them talking,
Sometimes I think
They’re talking about me.

All this time, all this time
All this time at sea.
They say it has no memory.
A poet forgets his library.

Something was written long ago.
A voice I should know says it was written by me.
Something like a hymn, almost holy song,
Some face on the cover, but they’ve
Got it all wrong.
Tell me what this nonsense
Has to do with me?

All this time, all this time
All this time at sea.
They say it has no memory.
A poet forgets his library.

My name they say, is a man beloved,
A man with a printed history.
Here I sit, and here they try
To read it back to me.
What’s this accusation?
The hell is poetry?

All this time, all this time
All this time at sea.
They say it has no memory.
A poet forgets his library.

For Jack Agueros

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from Seven Songs EP, released January 22, 2014
Cornelius Eady: Vocal
Robin Messing: Vocal
Concetta Abbate: Violin
Emma Alabaster: Bass & Vocal
Charlie Rauh: Guitar
Leo Ferguson: Drums

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Cornelius Eady New York, New York

Cornelius Eady is the author of 8 books of poetry, lives in NYC and is the co-founder of Cave Canem. The band Rough Magic came out of the sessions for his CD/Chapbook BOOK OF HOOKS. (Kattywompus Press, Jan. 2013)

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