Name: Up the Rat's Ass (April Fool's)
Duration: P00H01M47S
Description: It's a poem for April Fools. Also got some free foolish art downloads at johnnydowd.com/store .

Up the Rat's Ass (April Fool's)

from TUNES for SPECIAL OCCASIONS-album by Johnny Dowd

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It's a poem for April Fools. Also got some free foolish art downloads at johnnydowd.com/store .

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Up A Rat’s Ass

I crawled up a rat’s ass. It’s peaceful here and quiet, and I can’t complain about the view. There are no child molesters here abusing baby cupid with their insipid harmonies.

Pleasant people in bright costumes speak in confident voices. Fortunately, I can’t hear them. I have myself for company and that’s one too many. Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha

It’s a miracle my brain doesn’t drain out of my ears like soup from a cracked bowl. Is there anything left to do but vacuum mother’s old carpets and listen to dad’s drunken apologies?

I offered a glass of water to a woman who was about to drown, but the best of my good intentions came back and bit me like a dog.

It’s best not to get too involved and to lower your expectations.

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from TUNES for SPECIAL OCCASIONS-album, track released April 1, 2022

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Over the last thirty years, Johnny Dowd has been a musical explorer who has charted expeditions to genre-defying destinations that, at their heart, question, challenge, and dissect in their own way notions of the American Dream. Hope you like it.

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