Sunshine ☀️ Ray Edwards _ new poetry Friday the 13th 2026

Sunshine ☀️ Ray Edwards 

Under Spanish moss 

His hair tousled

Sunshine 🌞 Ray say,

We The People

Means We The People.

Sunshine ☀️ Ray Edwards

Makes great catfish!

Fried. Fried catfish! Yum!

Sunshine Ray say,

You bring the Miller High Life.

His black dog, BossMan, a bit salty.

Sunshine 🌞 Ray Edwards say,

We the People are in charge.

Anyone in government is our employee.

We pay. We the people pay 💰 

Sunshine 🌞 Ray say,

And we must have representation 

For our taxation, full stop 🛑 period.

Now let's eat.

Sunshine ☀️ Ray say,

Oh, yeah, that includes any president.

Sunshine Ray say.

3:22am - 3:59am February 13th

Friday the 13th 2026

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#new #exploremore #music #art #poetry

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Sunshine ☀️ Ray Edwards

3:22am - 3:59am February 13th

Friday the 13th 2026

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#new #exploremore #music #art #poetry

{suggested listening The Travelin' McCourys "Cumberland Blues"}

https://youtu.be/vhAjG_X8Rd4 

Good wishes,

John

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The Observations: America 🇺🇸 2026 _ new poetry February 2026

The Observations: 

America 🇺🇸 2026

You know what?

America needs 

Unscrupulous

Political weaponization 

For diversion

Division 

Without representation 

To hide exposed 

In plain sunlight 

Insulation 

Extreme elites 

Dissolve the middle 

Widen the gap

Like 17 and a half?

Grab the snatch at

The Grab & Go

"Monkey," she says 

With menthol cigarettes 

And beer breath 

Gold jewelry -

Silk kitten 

February 8, 2026

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John Alan Conte' Jr. 

#new #exploremore #music #art #poetry

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The Observations: 

America 🇺🇸 2026

The Observations: 

America 🇺🇸 2026

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February 8, 2026

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John Alan Conte' Jr. 

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#new #exploremore #music #art #poetry

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John

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An Urban Corner Bar _new poetry February 2026

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An Urban Corner Bar

Don Quixote Bingo

Playing on the jukebox 

Fried fish Fridays.

At one of the tables 

A hipster is reading 

Steel City Mafia

"So, his decline 

Doesn't have to be our decline.

The old man is an ego maniac 

And his condition. Don't get 

Sucked in and feel sorry 

For him for his condition.

Would he feel sorry for you?

Does he? No! We eat 

Peanuts and live in squalor 

While he lives like a king."

A woman in a business suit 

Walks in with a bodyguard.

February 6, 2026

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John Alan Conte' Jr. 

#new #exploremore #music #art #poetry

{That's Why I'm Walking by Stonewall Jackson 1963 performance https://youtu.be/9ZPBlO7YqDgsuggested background music}

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John

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Canal Girl _ new poetry art January 2026

🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹Canal Girl

Her soft shiny curls 

Framed her delicate face 

A canal girl 

With style and grace 

A town sprout up 

Just her daddy’s luck 

He had a handsome tavern 

The Susquehanna Inn 

I had 333 mirrors 🪞 

Headed onto Pittsburgh 

Then up to New Castle 

Before the canal, to get -

It wasn’t, a safe bet - 

Transporting Eastern Seaboard 

Over the Alleghenies, for sure! 

Horses & wagons = broken glass 

And Pittsburgh’s booming with class

So that’s where the canal girl

Decided to give me a whirl 

We’ll be married real soon

An Edgeworth wedding in June 

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3:41 a.m. January 30, 2026

John Alan Conte’ Jr. MyStrawHat.com 

Midpeesteinegie Elephants of Elephant 🐘 Island #new #poetry #experience #art January 24, 2026

"Does Art Reflect Reality or Reality Effect Art?" And for that to be truthfully answered you have to have clean clear Classic Jesus of the New Testament morality & ethical forgiving love & firm grasp on truth as reality (not agenda driven) but free 

Midpeesteinegie Elephants of Elephant 🐘 Island #new #poetry #experience #art 

January 24, 2026 3:07am 

Midpeesteinegie Elephants of Elephant 🐘 Island 

Fern braced herself firmly 

Plow trucks on South 15th Street

Had sprayed all the vehicles 

Which then became frozen 

Solid, baby, solidly frozen 

Time stood still for those people 

Who yelled up the slopes about 

The Midpeesteinegie Elephants 🐘 feces 

Records weren’t frozen they spun

Music of Midpeesteinegie Elephant Island

Steamy, hot, tropical, sinful, desire 

Did the island train the elephants 🐘 

Or did the elephants 🐘 train the island???

Sean Hannity Presents, presents them in D.C. 

After Moscow & China had them 🐘 chipped 

A circus with intent to destroy the Constitution 

A circus that travelled the states and abroad 

But Fern’s blast slowed down the red pulse 

Like The Affordability Reality Show will do 

Hitherto town talk in every town in 50 states 

Discussed how Moscow & China how they 

Were defeating the USA with a Trojan Horse 

Fox presents Midpeesteinegie Elephant Island

USA citizens now under Presidents Putin & Xi 

Fern froze time for all to see what’s going on 

☝️👋January 24, 2026 3:07am 

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John

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Candy TV _ new poetry January 2026

Candy TV

When I was young 

Everything was Candy and TV

Church, school and family 

Music was everywhere 

So was smoke 

It got inside of you 

Drinking 7up & Mountain Dew

Bowling alleys and pool halls 

Ice skating rinks and basketball 

Magazines, airplanes, Holiday Inns 

My dad could walk to his law firm 

Grandma could walk to her paisano

Mom planting bulbs for spring, summer, fall

Lassie, the Little Rascals, The Lone Ranger 

The goodness within people on full display 

Little House on the Prairie, The Waltons, 

Leave It to Beaver, Andy Griffith, Grizzly Adams 

It all made you want to be a better person 

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John Alan Conte' Jr. 

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John Alan Conte' Jr. 

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John

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Ain’t Life Swell _ new poetry January 2026

Ain't Life Swell 

The tracks have snow on them 

But the wheels still glide 

Hop on a freight and take a ride 

It don't cost nothin' 

But if you fall you might die 

It's warm inside 

Box-car Captain Freddy 

He got himself a fire 

That he'll share with you 

If he like the first few - 

Sentences you speak of a story 

If he doesn't like A to B to D

He may say A to D to B to D

Or just say, "time you get off"

With a fur-ball cough in the key of C

Snow outlines branches of trees 

Frozen strata painted by Da Vinci 

The hillside whispers comes softly 

It's all coming back into view slowly 

While you calculate a jumping off point 

With good Filson boots hitting another joint 

Oh, gee, you see, ain't life so swell 

6:44 a.m. John Alan Conte' Jr. 

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John

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