{"product_id":"poems-song-lyrics-from-the-year-2020-9798475194942","title":"Poems \u0026 Song Lyrics From the Year 2020","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Stanfield Major\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: American - General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt was the year of the lockdown. The year of economic collapse. The year of Covid, unemployment, political madness, and depressing confusion.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt was the year I wrote 146 poems and song lyrics.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book contains poetical sketches of my inner landscape during this period.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSome of the topics I explore in this book include: Whistleblowers, friendship, my feline companion, death, the life of the mind, a circle of women, a cockroach museum, old men planting trees, being a poet, dead angels, art, private pictures, press freedom, good wine and cheese, white supremacy, my willie, the Blues, full open hearts, the power of love, dreamers, armadillos, cheap apple wine, and pure honest love.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHere's a sample: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCheap Apple Wine\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMoney\u003cbr\u003edoesn't grow on a tree.\u003cbr\u003eThis much...\u003cbr\u003eI have divined.\u003cbr\u003eBut apples do...\u003cbr\u003eand to my advantage...\u003cbr\u003eI'm surviving this crisis\u003cbr\u003ewith my cheap apple wine.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGrandpa\u003cbr\u003ewas very tight with a buck.\u003cbr\u003eTaught me...\u003cbr\u003ea tree is the thing.\u003cbr\u003eSaid, \"don't rely much upon luck...\u003cbr\u003eraise you an orchard\u003cbr\u003efull of good apples\u003cbr\u003eand you'll be able to sing.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI can sell apples for five bucks a basket\u003cbr\u003eand rove through the dumpsters for the rest of my food\u003cbr\u003eand I keep on writing my lyrics and poems\u003cbr\u003eknowin' Grandpap's advice is still good.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMoney\u003cbr\u003edoesn't grow on a tree.\u003cbr\u003eThis much...\u003cbr\u003eI have divined.\u003cbr\u003eBut apples do...\u003cbr\u003eand to my advantage...\u003cbr\u003eI'm surviving this crisis\u003cbr\u003ewith my cheap apple wine.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Independently Published","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45558912123031,"sku":"9798475194942","price":1411.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9798475194942.webp?v=1767920890","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/poems-song-lyrics-from-the-year-2020-9798475194942","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}