If This Year Was A Book

If this year was a book
Then how would it look
Are there 52 chapters
Or one for each month
365 pages to read
Is your face on the back of the jacket
Let’s see

And would you dedicate it
To the people you know
A pop pulp novella
Or a weightier tone
I wonder wonder wonder
How it’d look
If you where the author
And this year was a book

If this year was a book
Then how would it read
Is it action-adventure
Or a character study
Does the type setting change
With the sun or the rain
Does it start nice and slow
Or take off like a train

Is it all fancy phrases
Or colloquial speak
Will you skip ahead
And read up on what happens next week
To see which winding winding road you took

If you where the author
And this year was a book

30 days has September
April June and November
All the rest have 31
‘Cept February's missing some

If this year was a book
Then how would it end
Would you make lots of money
Will you meet a new friend
The exposition's sad enough for January
And the twist of the plot
Will likely rise in the spring

The summer time will be the most dramatic of all
And the autumn helps us fall into the sweet denouement
Will you finally let your readers off the hook
If you were the author
And this year was a book