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FreeVerse: An Almost Thanksgiving Gift of an Almost Original Poem

Oh book bloggers!  I is Thankful for you!  To show my appreciation, I wrote this song parody for you back during BBAW.  Then I didn’t post it because I chickened out.  Then I was going to post it during the ‘Thon.  And then I chickened out again.  But then!  Then!  I realized that the Take a Chance Challenge is almost over and I haven’t done squat for the Lit Riffs category, wherein you’re supposed to write a story based on a song or about a song or inspired by a song or some such thing like that.  And so behold!  For the second week in a row, you get an (almost) original poem by me.

The song I went with is “American Music” by the Violent Femmes (if you’re not familiar with it, you should check out the YouTube video below first).  Strangely enough, this is not the first time I’ve used this song in poetry before.

 

“Blog About Books” by J.T. Oldfield
based on “American Music” by the Violent Femmes 

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