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Writer's picturehil hoover

Deals

(I had entirely too much fun writing this one, y'all)


what’s your price, baby? 


what gets your motor revvin’

so hard you’d sell anything? 

I been watchin' you for a while 

and I can’t seem to figure out 

what your angle is, 

what you want in this world 

enough. 


anyone will do it, you know that,

right? 


you might snicker at the blues man, 

the writer, the artist who gives it up 

for the spotlight, but 

what about a son savin' his father, 

a mother savin' her child, 

the struggle to live another day

in a world that tries to 

take, take, take just 

as much as I do. 


You think you’re above 

the crossroads deal, 

the dotted line that never 

ends - until it does - 

the scratch of a pen 

on Old Scratch’s 

tablet? 


Wait. 


I just have to 

find the right bait. 

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Omar Najam
Oct 24

As a blues fan, this read as so percussive to me! There's so much swing to your lines. I've read this over and over, performing it in my head!

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hil hoover
Oct 26
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I love your comments because you always catch The Thing I Was Hoping Worked. <3 I know who Lou Cypher is and that he's like British or something, but I can't NOT associate crossroads deals with the blues. And I write more for the stage than for the page in my regular life, so like... I'm glad you heard it.

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