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corn palace

from corn palace by Sean Keel

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Plastic bags are catching air
they’re dancing
Reaching wings white as wedding gowns
Haven’t known for years where you are,
I’m not asking
The revival must be over.
The tents are coming down.

oil derricks
old men bending
Is it me
or is it everything that’s ending

I was a boy when they built
the new corn palace
There’s ’s nothing like it anywhere
they’d tell us
It ’ll bring folks in from everywhere,
far away as Dallas
Corn palace will save the town

Bet you don’t get back to South Dakota
You said there’s nothing here
but indians and gin
Don’t know how you’d find me
I don’t look much like the photos
Whatever man you’d come to look for
I’m not him

Hollas creek is up and running
so much snow last winter
Cows are chewing sideways
you know why I think of you
If you ask me
the sun has gotten thinner
I can stare straight up at it.
Something you’re not supposed to do

Nobody bales these days. They roll em
It’s quick and easy
but it wastes a lot of hay

Why’d we waste so much money
getting married at the Palace
I Forget why it had to be
Saint Catherine’s day

Bet you don’t get back to south Dakota
You said there’s nothing here
but indians and gin
I don’t know how you’d find me
I don't look much like the photos
Whoever you’d come to look for
I’m not him

Plastic bags like dancers at a wedding
Its crazy the things folks throw away
What if we’d got hitched
at the courthouse instead
Put the money down on the Hartman place

angry for years after you left me
Don’t know where all those years or
All that that anger went

Is it true what they
say when you left you were pregnant
That you had the kid
and gave the kid away?

Think of you
when I see hay rolls.
Of you and all that wasted hay

Everybody got so wasted
at our wedding at the Palace
Hey why’d it have to be
St. Catherine’s day

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from corn palace, released September 9, 2022

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Sean Keel Austin, Texas

Two dinosaurs rusting at roughly the same rate. The left most is UT math professor
Sean Keel. He writes lyric dense folk/country (and sometimes jazz) music both solo, and in collaboration with his family and friends band, Bill The Pony.

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