Tom Breihan over at Stereogum has been running a column about all the Number One songs on Billboard’s Hot 100 chart since its inception in 1958. (It’s great—you should check it out.) I decided to use each song as a writing prompt.
“My one and only prayer
is that some day you’ll care.”
But what if the absence of God
is also God?
Two roads converged on a word,
and I—I mustered only a sigh,
And wished I could still tell the difference.
Polking Classroom 