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Elevate and celebrate something mundane.

Guy Clark's song "Home Grown Tomatoes" or Greg Brown's "Canned Goods" are excellent examples of the celebration of a mundane item placing it into a rarefied and exalted status. It was also the basis of Pablo Neruda’s elemental odes.

 
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