Song of the Year

from Naturale by Joe Kenkel

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The breeze drags all that’s near from here to far away
Sold buildings, oldest friends apart,
Or your neighbor’s things into your yard, today

Your neighbor’s belongings ain’t worth much with your conscience watching,
Your neighbor’s money could be worth a lot if it’s not…

But if it’s a matter of when it is or when it’s not,
Let the gates all lock, poems inside to rot.
If it’s a matter of when it’s not or when it is,
I’ll play lookout until the breeze drags
Nothing here, and we vote it for the song of the year.

The breeze drags an unsettling tune through the screen.
I’ve got half a mind to record it, send it off to W.B.
And I’d like to know who among them will pay for the sound they wrote?
All the dark y’all would swallow and what you won’t.

But if it’s a matter of what you will or what you won’t,
Let the gates all close, poems inside froze over.
And if it’s a matter of what you won’t or what you will,
I’ll play lookout until the breeze drags a big nothing here
And we vote it for the song of the year,
The song, the song, of the year.

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from Naturale, released January 13, 2022

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