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The sun goes down but the light never goes,
rain moves through the orange
night but doesn't fall.

The cypresses swell like everything else
in the world and in the air, turning
in cycles.

We are happy and then inexplicably sad

then happy again. Like the clouds
in the sky.

Rain slants across the yard,
over the graves of our lesser pets.
I don't know

if their lives were miserable in their little boxes
or if they just lived,
without news of the world,

until they died. I can see their bones
clearly when I think really hard,
they make a pattern my training hasn't prepared me
to understand.

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from Pink Thunder, released December 1, 2012
Poem by Matthew Rohrer, from Satellite, Verse Press 2001. Used with permission. Music by Michael Zapruder. Clarinet - Evan Francis; Cornet - Gene V. Baker; Piano, acoustic guitar, lead vocal - Michael Zapruder. Acoustic guitar. piano recorded by Sean Coleman at Closer Recording. Clarinet, cornet recorded by Eli Crews at N,IR. Vocals recorded by Michael Zapruder at 1924 Franklin. Mixed by Eli Crews at N,IR. Mastered by Dave McNair at Sterling Sound.

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Michael Zapruder Austin, Texas

“Michael Zapruder makes beautiful folk-pop ballads resonant of the voice of Rufus Wainwright and wordplay of Andrew Bird" – Pitchfork

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