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The Penguin Book of American Verse

from The Book of Absolution (2022) by Anthony Toner

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Partly inspired by the rise of the right in American politics, but mostly the sense that the American century is well and truly over, and we're really into a dark, deranged and fractured time now in that nation. I worry that it might be contagious.

lyrics

The Penguin Book of American Verse

The Penguin Book of American Verse
has landscapes vast and wide.
The buildings are tall, and the shadows are long,
and there’s a million places to hide.

The Penguin Book of American Verse
has done a thing or two.
It gave us The Bomb and the electric guitar,
and then showed us what they could do.

The Penguin Book of American Verse
is in love with the automobile.
But the distance to home might just break your heart
before you even take the wheel.

Bless me, Walt Whitman, for I have sinned:
I must have misplaced my devotion.
I keep forgetting that the country’s
still so young and wild.

The Penguin Book of American Verse
somehow fails to explain
how it held our hopes in its capable hands,
but still let it go down the drain.

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from The Book of Absolution (2022), released November 14, 2022
Anthony Toner: Vocals and Guitars
Matt Weir: Drums
Clive Culbertson: Bass

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