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Folk Song

:  Where’s the folk song about the pranks that meteorologists play on each other? Where’s the folk song cover of “Roxanne”?
     Where’s the country song about the mediocre scholarship in certain history books?
     What about a country song devoted to how worthless credit card payment protection is?
     Or a death metal song about a comprehensive approach to sex ed led by qualified professionals?
     Where’s the ambient industrial trance techno song about the confusing memo your manager sent?
    Once, when I was a kid, I wrapped myself in toilet paper and pretended to be a mummy. When my mother got home, she took one look and shook her head. Then we went out for burgers and scratch tickets—
     Where’s the folk song about that? 

About the Author

Matthew Guenette, man in brown glasses and plaid button-down shirt  with colorful painting behind him

Matthew Guenette is the author of Doom Scroll (2023), Vasectomania (2017), American Busboy (2011), and Sudden Anthem (2008). He lives in Madison, WI, with his wife, their two kids, and a twenty-pound cat named Butternut.


March 2023

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