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One Thing

from The Person I Admire by Joe Holt

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I write down one thing every day you make me grateful for
The hard part’s sometimes settling for one
Now I’m halfway through a notebook and I’m coming up with more
Racing pages against phrases until one of them’s gone

I notice one thing every day I couldn’t see before
The lunette of treetops circling the sun
Or the way I wait for rainstorms, how I’m happy when it pours
When we have to stay inside together, safe until it’s done

If there’s one thing I could tell you, I would tell you
I hate telling you goodbye
And if there’s one thing I could show you,
I would blow you every kiss you’ve redefined
There’s a hundred thousand praises
I could sing to you in unsurprising rhyme
But for now I’ll keep to one thing at a time

I feel one thing every day I couldn’t feel before
Like discovering a limb I’ve never used
You’re pointing out the parts about me worth being adored
And you’re nourishing the traces left from places I abused

If there’s one thing I could tell you, I would tell you
I hate telling you goodbye
And if there’s one thing I could show you,
I would blow you every kiss you’ve redefined
There’s a hundred thousand praises
I could sing to you in unsurprising rhyme
But for now I’ll keep to one thing at a time

If there’s one thing I could tell you, I would tell you
I hate telling you goodbye
And if there’s one thing I could show you,
I would blow you every kiss you’ve redefined
There’s a hundred thousand praises
I could sing to you in unsurprising rhyme
But for now I’ll keep to one thing at a time

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from The Person I Admire, released May 30, 2017

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Joe Holt New York, New York

Joe is a folk singer/songwriter originally from England, whose music was praised by Obscure Sound as "stirring, eloquent songwriting," and by Ear to the Ground as "the real deal when it comes to folk songwriting." His music has been featured twice on NPR. He lives in New York City. ... more

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