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Year of the Dog

from 1 by Matt Kresling

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Look how well a dog
can impersonate a man
and learn a set of rules
and seem by sheer obediency
to rise to great success;
it wouldn't matter if he ran
through a maze or for the presidency.

Give him a reward,
the one who best remembers all
the platitudes, the master of etcetera,
acquired at the School of Pate de Fois Gras.
You may already recognize your ideal son-in-law?

Look how well the dogs
have risen, every one of them, to greatness,
the standard now for greatness
being someone with whom you can have a beer.
Man of the year, year of the dog,
man of the year.
And when it's time to factor out who's best,
which actor will it be?

These are their days
the dogs are having now.
These are their days
the dogs are having now.
These are their days.

Drawing to the close
of a catastrophic term,
the man of the year proposed
that he assume the mantle
permanently.
The electorate rose
and then began
barking their approval of his well-tailored clothes.

But this can’t last.
Their fall is near.
This time next year,
I’ll be nostalgic for the past
when it’s the year of the pig.

Oh, have I mentioned whom we’ll toast that year?
Only the most conventional prigs.

These are their days
the dogs are having now.
These are their days
the dogs are having now.
These are their days.

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from 1, track released December 31, 2009
Guitar: Jake Krohn, Bass: Lonnie Wilson, Drums: Lewie Fitz

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